787 Story by Dan Rather

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Larry Dighera writes:

While it is evident that Mr. Vincent A. Weldon is qualified to issue
his concerns in his comment on this issue, I fail to see how the
carbon-fiber composite construction of the Boeing 787-8 is
significantly different from that used in many military aircraft.

It's not ... but military aircraft and personnel are considered much
more expendable than civilian aircraft and personnel, so the threshold
of acceptable risk is much higher. Hmm.

He raises some points about Boeing's cost cutting to reduce assembly
time and weight, but those should be easily addressed.

My major concern about the 787 is that so little of it is actually
produced by Boeing, and is actually farmed out to all sorts of foreign
contractors of questionable reliability, either to increase profit
margins or for political reasons.


You are an idiot


Bertie