I was thinking the same thing, then I remembered a fiction story I read about an airliner "outsourcing the wing" (Airframe, Michael Crichton), so now I'm wonder

I was thinking the same thing, then I remembered a fiction story I read about an airliner "outsourcing the wing" (Airframe, Michael Crichton), so now I'm wondering if I had that impression from the fiction, or if I read it in a real-world story about the Dreamliner.