787 Built in 50 locations

rogertb

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Dec 9, 2012, 11:51:38 AM12/9/12

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Hope this is the correct site for this sort of question but I see the
new 787 is built in 50 locations around the world, anyone know why this
is and how it can be cost effective, given what must be enormous
transport costs ...

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Orval Fairbairn

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Dec 9, 2012, 7:24:26 PM12/9/12

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In article <rogertb...@aviationbanter.com>,

It allows specialty companies to build the parts and cuts down on
Boeing's retirement and benefit liabilities.

rogertb

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Dec 10, 2012, 3:16:44 AM12/10/12

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Orval Fairbairn;829889 Wrote:
> It allows specialty companies to build the parts and cuts down on
> Boeing's retirement and benefit liabilities.

that's fascinating ... of course it had to be down to money but I find
it fascinating that transport costs (even after the building of the
'Dreamlifters') are low enough for this to work !

Thanks Orval - Roger

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Panic

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Dec 11, 2012, 1:59:41 PM12/11/12

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It's also political. Having other countries profiting from the construction
encourages those countries to buy Boeing aircraft.

"rogertb" wrote in message news:rogertb...@aviationbanter.com...

Allan McDowall

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Dec 16, 2012, 1:59:23 AM12/16/12

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rogertb;829865 I think the answer to your question is to think yourself
into the minds of the members of the board of an aircraft maker. You
cannot have the entire workforce waiting until an order happens to ' fly
by '. So the airplane tends to get put together by groups of other
people who specialise in different parts, and whose staff have
expertise, theoretical and experience, in very narrow fields - because
the science of, say, hot end turbine design differs from the science of
cold end turbine design. It takes 10 years or so to conceive a new gas
turbine, to its birth. The science of wing flutter is different from the
science of airplane fusilage structure. Money to gather these people
into manageable groups has to be raised, so it is borrowed, on the
international stockmarket. You hope that the people who lend you money
will be patient and wait to be paid - but young bloods ( and old bloods
too ) have discovered that this money is sitting waiting to be played
with, like chips at a casino. So, the company tends to fragment its
holdings into little bits - what would you do ? Yes, the Stockmarkets,
upon which the entire world depends, are out of control, and have always
been - but getting nations to agree is like herding cats. The
successful companies tend to grow, those less successful tend to shrink
- but bigger may not necessarily be better, because huge size militates
against innovation usually - not always. Continual change & improvement
are sort after, because that is what the travelling public want. The
fact that there are far too many of us already and that we do not really
need to eyeball each other when it can be done electronically has not
yet caught on. But our capitalism is in essence a predatory activity;
one is either a predator or a prey - aren't you ? That is the best
answer I can give, now I will keep my head down whilst others who know
more than me answer. Allan

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Allan McDowall