The 787 many problems are first and foremost, results of architectural-design errors made years ago. Boeing specified way too many new technologies and components whose sole purpose is to reduce cost. Not to deliver greater customer satisfaction. Then to compound this, Boeing decided to subcontract out the engineering-build of just about the whole aircraft. These contracts were awarded all over the world, selecting many who has little aerospace experience, and therefore can low-bid. Boeing management figured their job is simply to assemble parts together and laugh all the way to be bank.It’s all about doing the least work, using the cheapest or newest parts – a by-now standard and uniquely American management style to deliver the maximum possible profit. Look what happened to HP – it doesn’t make stuff anymore. It put labels on other people’s stuff. This is also the 787 Dreamliner.
The 787 is a pure electrical plane, requiring a huge power plant. But to get such a plant going, it needs a huge battery bank. Instead of using try-and-true (and aviation certified) NiCd battery, Boeing picked notorious lithium-ion, with a reputation of catching fire in notebook. Why? Yup – cut cost and weight. This battery is now the subject to the Japan fleet grounding. Boeing care more about profit then safety.
When Boeing called its new liner the Dreamliner, the name came from top management. It’s supposed to be a dream for them – their balance sheet and big bonus.
Ah, the mistakes of the 70s of the auto industry comes to the 10s in aircraft.
Bull.
Boeing has always been a assembler of parts and subcomponets designed and built by others. Take the engines, who’s value is equal to the rest of the aircraft. Boeing has never, ever built, designed a engine. Nor tires, nor . Take interiors. Companies make custom interiors for private jets, foreign and domestic custom desire. Boeing couldn’t touch that. This is true in the 787 and every aircraft for decades. Nobody does in house. Not Apple, not IBM, not Ford, not Honda.