Union blames Boeing 787 problems on outsourcing

Business Jan. 20, 2013 - 06:56AM JST ( 6 )

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basroilJan. 20, 2013 - 03:35PM JST

These are the same guys who, when they could offer to Boeing to solve all the new problems, are going to be shutting themselves and Boeing out of a solution. Unions have gone too far in search of archaic pension plans
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Peter PayneJan. 20, 2013 - 04:02PM JST

I wonder how far Boeing will drop. Might pick up some stock.
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kabukideathJan. 20, 2013 - 09:27PM JST

Hmm. With the sequester about to hit, it looks like another union making a statement at the wrong place and the wrong time. (think Hostess) There are an awful lot of experienced defense contract engineers who will be available soon if they aren't already.
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Thunderbird2Jan. 20, 2013 - 09:44PM JST

This is more about the unions being worried about their jobs than about the safety of parts being built by other companies. Never hurt those who built the Airbus planes, the Panavia Tornado, Eurofighter Typhoon. It's just protectionism.
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globalwatcherJan. 21, 2013 - 08:34AM JST

outsourcing

Smell more troubles.

The problem of outsourcing is that right hand does not know what left hand is doing in quality control.

All plant employees and engineers need to manufacture parts and assemble entire aircrafts just like they are making their own pace makers and I do not see that happening in oursourcing. This is a big opportunity that they can correct in American business today.
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BopmanJan. 21, 2013 - 11:24AM JST

Much as outsourcing is maybe part of the problem, I think we have to look deeper into the initial design of this plane!...I don't think the use of lithium ion batteries is a good choice, in view of their volatile nature!...Take the accident on September. 3rd, 2010 when a UPS Boeing 747-400 carrying more than 81,000 lithium batteries caught fire after leaving Dubai, crashing and killing both pilots, plus their have been incidents of people's mobile phones, laptops, etc. catching fire and burning through bags and suitcases on aircraft!...Other research states that

Halon agents commonly used in aircraft Class C cargo holds are worse than useless in suppressing lithium battery fires because, at the enormous temperatures of lightning-fast metal oxidation reactions, Halon is split (Dissociated) into violent chemical oxidizers that are far more potent than oxygen (You might as well dump aviation fuel onto the blaze)

No doubt this aircraft is going to be a winner among the airlines in view of its weight reduction/fuel efficiency with the use of carbon fibre-reinforced-plastic but I wonder how environmentally friendly it will be in this trade off when it reaches its service life, since you won't be making many pots and pans out of plastic when it eventually gets recycled!