Originally Posted by
tdracer
40 wing sets is less than three months production. Given wings and aircraft in assembly, units in inventory and transit (the wings are built in Japan), and completed aircraft going through pre-delivery processing, 40 is far from "massive". Further, delivery pre-cert would be a major escape - the sort of thing that gets production shutdown and it wouldn't be a rumor.
"Thorson estimated" - so a non-lightning specialist, with only a passing knowledge of the methodology in question, estimated. Hardly a convincing argument that the aircraft are unsafe.
There will be no more than 12 in the production line as the maximum delivery was around that amount - 145 deliveries in a year.
So we have 28 wing sets waiting around?
Given the fact of the size of the wings built in a location far from assemble area, a smart and cost cutting company will be holding low stock levels.
Delivery times for the 787's wings, built in Japan, will be reduced from around 30 days to just over eight hours with the 747 LCF. from wikki.
Realistically anything over 30 days stock would be excessive.
Your words on Thorsen gave him credit for being intelligent - so given facts, he could see what classification the data presented should fall into.
The data presented did not meet the classification Boeing gave it, the same thing happened with the MAX and MCAS.
The wrong classification was given.
Thorson wrote, adding the
agency’s technical experts had discovered errors in the way Boeing summed up the various risks.
"Further, delivery pre-cert would be a
major escape - the sort of thing that gets production shutdown and it wouldn't be a rumor." Again missing required AOA warning on the MAX as to Boeings concern of any shutdown happening from FAA ever.
A year ago many of us would ever have given a thought of Boeing ever doing such a blatant and illegal act, that has changed to highly probable.