[Southack]

"Boeing has already outsourced its critical wing technology on its Jumbos to China..."

What's your source for that wild-eyed claim?

[ARCADIA]

What's your source for that wild-eyed claim?

It has been all over the news.

the only plane part that Boeing now manufactures in-house is the wing. For the 777, in fact, Boeing outsourced so much of the plane to the Japanese Aerospace Consortium (comprised of companies like Mitsubishi) that some in the American aerospace industry grew concerned that it was offshoring the very expertise that competitively differentiated it

Here is the link to the article quoted above: http://www.openoutsource.com/resource-dated15408-The%20digital%20airplane.phtml

Here are a couple of others:

http://www.don-iannone.com/edfutures/2003/12/boeing-outsourcing-7e7-wing-work.html

http://www.compositesnews.com/cni.asp?articleID=7431