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No. Airplane manufacturing is extremely complex and has dozens of subcontractors who all work at their own rate. Boeing is not integrated like SpaceX
by NikolaeVarius 7y ago
No. Airplane manufacturing is extremely complex and has dozens of subcontractors who all work at their own rate.
Boeing is not integrated like SpaceX
- jandrese 7y agoWhich is honestly part of their problem. They have discovered that integration and testing costs scale with the multiple of the number of subcontractors you use. The money you save on upfront development costs ends up being burned on extended integration testing and general inefficiencies (time zone/language/culture differences). Granted, the -MAX8's problem seems to stem from the need to race Airbus to the market and not having the time to do proper integration tests, but the difficulty with testing is directly related to complications in this development model. Also, Boeing is way overdue for a proper 737 replacement. A 737 sized bird using 787 design principles/technology and built to properly handle the massive engines that modern customers crave.
- bradhe 7y ago> A 737 sized bird using 787 design principles/technology and built to properly handle the massive engines that modern customers crave. They should definitely make that! They could call it the...737 MAXIMUM SIZE. Or maybe the 7373 MAX for short?