A and C
The techniques are quite different from metal repair....... In fact it is far closer to the techniques used for the construction and repair of wooden
aircraft.
It seems we have come full circle, back to Wilbur and Orville.
By my math, the ship minus engines costs about $170,000,000.
If repair is feasible, and the cost does not far exceed 8 figures ... then it makes financial sense so to do.
Eight figures ranges from about 6% of the cost to just over 60% of the cost of a new bird.
Somebody who once worked for Boeing wrote ...
and bucu outsourcing
I think you mean "beaucoup" (as in "a lot") which is pronounced in American slang (origin I think US military slang, Viet Nam era) to sound like "boo coo" or 'bo coo" ... but maybe it goes back to some Cajun/Coonass slang from Louisiana ...
Or maybe have I missed a new slang term and its origin, yet again. :P
Composite repair: it appears to be a growing field of endeavour as more and more of our airframes, rotary and fixed wing, are made of something other than metal.