Maybe Boeing should have purchased
Securaplane at that point, just as it later "bought Vought".....
There was an industry wide evolution in manufacturing to offshore, or at least "SUB contract" the actual work, and retain "Project Management". Capital investment was deferred, then eliminated, and the cream of the project, "management" stayed in house.
So how much is "Control" worth? Fracturing any part of the construction of an airliner and scattering it to remote and iconoclastic regions is a problem.
There is nothing more important in a complicated, technologically complex project than "integration".
Starting a project by eliminating success friendly paradigm (integration) at the outset is problematic.....
Is Thales a "BUY".....?
syseng68k..... Another option? Lithium technology remains certified until it is decertified. It is merely grounded (sic).
Why does it have to be "on-line" in flight? Does it? It is down the chain of redundancy merely by virtue of the 787's electrical architecture, having plugged the bleeds, and added a genset to each engine.
The argument then becomes (if I am airframer), why must the 787 be super redundant in the first place? two extra generators, and the RAT, how much is the Battery requirement just "overkill"?
