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All airplane manufacturers have giant supply chains spanning countries… Airbus just considers some of them maybe a bit more "integrated". I.e. the Spanish wing
by eqvinox 2y ago
All airplane manufacturers have giant supply chains spanning countries… Airbus just considers some of them maybe a bit more "integrated". I.e. the Spanish wing-skin manufacturing unit could just be a separate company.
btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter [ed. wrong link]
- piva00 2y agoI feel the main difference is that Boeing's management post McDonnell merge decided to consider their suppliers as simple vendors, spinning off Spirit, and taking away their direct oversight using supply contracts as a backstop. Airbus does more hands-on oversight of their suppliers, they have staff to check their work, is all part of an integrated QA system instead of the hands-off outsourcing approach Boeing took. At least that's what I understand from a very layman view of their processes, would love to be corrected if I'm wrong.