“And I was laughing at Airbus for their A380 wiring problems.”
Building a composite aircraft is still a fairly new science.
Designing and installing wiring in aircraft is definitely not a new science.
Theres a huge difference.
True, but farming out the design and manufacture of such new science to companies such as Vought and Alenia was a big gamble on Boeing’s part, and it looks like it isn’t paying off.
It is not as simple as that, the A380 problem was related to design collaboration tools. The A380 structure people were not informed correctly of a change to wiring bundles. To save weight the wiring harnesses were changed to use aluminum. This cause an increase in the total wire bundle diameter. The structures group was not informed of this change due to a design system tool flaw between the German and French designers. As a result the wire harnesses were too tight for the pass through holes in the interior ribs of the aircraft. The 878 problem is a design problem specific to composites. Just sayin.