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Was it made at the plant in North Carolina? Or in Seattle?

plegresl 3y ago
Fuselage assembled by Spirt AeroSystems in Wichita, KS with final assembly by Boeing in the Seattle area
MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Stan and the gang will try and pawn this off on Spirit, but Renton is supposed to do high blow[1]. It's one of the last things that gets done, with hydraulics and suchlike. I'm just guessing here, but I bet someone waived a batch of Spirit stuff through the process to get more units out the door. "Eh, this whole block is probably fine". False Equivalence strikes again[2]. [1] Simulated full pressurization, often many of them [2] And yeah. Spirit's got problems. But those problems wouldn't be problems if Boeing didn't sell off BCA's Wichita fuse fab to investment bankers back in 2005 as "Spirit". It's a pretty good name, since it's what some religions think is left behind after you're dead.
- 19h 3y ago
  Please, Stan the Man will blame the pilots, the passengers, the Wright brothers themselves before admitting Boeing screwed up again. Accountability left that company years ago.
numpad0 3y ago
The part that blew off was a blank filler panel for an optional emergency door. With that context, are they still delivered as part of the fuselage or are they added in the final assembly?
- pixelesque 3y ago
  There seems to be varying info on this... The BBC article claims it wasn't "installed" for AS, but this article: https://www.flightglobal.com/the-737-story-the-long-stretch/65315.article https://www.flightglobal.com/the-737-story-the-long-stretch/... "Provision for the new exits – which boost the exit limit capacity from 189 to 215 passengers – “will be structurally installed as standard in all -900s, and will allow operators to decide if the door should be activated or deactivated”, says 737 chief project engineer Mike Delaney." Makes it sound like they're always installed, and airlines can opt to activate them or not...

Fuselage assembled by Spirt AeroSystems in Wichita, KS with final assembly by Boeing in the Seattle area

Stan and the gang will try and pawn this off on Spirit, but Renton is supposed to do high blow[1]. It's one of the last things that gets done, with hydraulics and suchlike. I'm just guessing here, but I bet someone waived a batch of Spirit stuff through the process to get more units out the door. "Eh, this whole block is probably fine". False Equivalence strikes again[2]. [1] Simulated full pressurization, often many of them [2] And yeah. Spirit's got problems. But those problems wouldn't be problems if Boeing didn't sell off BCA's Wichita fuse fab to investment bankers back in 2005 as "Spirit". It's a pretty good name, since it's what some religions think is left behind after you're dead.

19h 3y ago
Please, Stan the Man will blame the pilots, the passengers, the Wright brothers themselves before admitting Boeing screwed up again. Accountability left that company years ago.

numpad0 3y ago

The part that blew off was a blank filler panel for an optional emergency door. With that context, are they still delivered as part of the fuselage or are they added in the final assembly?

pixelesque 3y ago
There seems to be varying info on this... The BBC article claims it wasn't "installed" for AS, but this article: https://www.flightglobal.com/the-737-story-the-long-stretch/65315.article https://www.flightglobal.com/the-737-story-the-long-stretch/... "Provision for the new exits – which boost the exit limit capacity from 189 to 215 passengers – “will be structurally installed as standard in all -900s, and will allow operators to decide if the door should be activated or deactivated”, says 737 chief project engineer Mike Delaney." Makes it sound like they're always installed, and airlines can opt to activate them or not...