Do I understand this right? Did Boeing make a special plane (Dreamlifter) in order to travel to Italy to transport fuselage sections back to the USA to build planes here? Wouldn't it be easier to skip the special plane and just make the fuselage sections here?
The goal is to complete the final assembly of all the 'preassembled' sections into a flying machine in THREE DAYS. I'm assuming this gargantuan ballet is the best, most cost-effective way to achieve such a high production rate (and sell them faster) to make obscene profits in record time so they can 'contribute' lots of tax revenue in order to keep me comfortable as a "greedy geezer" who will really enjoy travelling on such a wonderful aircraft as the Dreamliner.
If that's true, I'm all for it!!
There is a list of 'international participants' at Boing Commercial Airplanes
I wonder how long the first one will take to assemble?
First Flight is scheduled for 7/08/07 !!