{"id":199859,"date":"2007-06-21T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/21\/marketplace-some-assembly-still-required-at-boeing\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T21:45:00","slug":"marketplace-some-assembly-still-required-at-boeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/21\/marketplace-some-assembly-still-required-at-boeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketplace: Some assembly still required at Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here we see the difference between Boeing and Airbus.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus made its problems public as soon a they showed up.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/shows\/2007\/06\/19\/PM200706193.html\"> Some assembly still required at Boeing<\/a><\/span><br \/>Boeing got a $9 billion order today, mostly for its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft. But the company&#8217;s having some problems as it prepares to deliver the jet. Jeremy Hobson reports.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Kai Ryssdal: <\/span>The Paris Air Show&#8217;s in full swing this week. It&#8217;s an every-other-year aviation spectacular that functions as one big sales pitch for airplane makers.<\/p>\n<p>And the pitch has been very good for Boeing. Today, the company got a nine billion dollar order from the world&#8217;s largest aircraft leasing company. Mostly the new 787 Dreamliners.<\/p>\n<p>But Jeremy Hobson reports Boeing&#8217;s having a couple of teeny tiny problems as it prepares to deliver the jet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jeremy Hobson: <\/span>You can&#8217;t make an airplane without fasteners \u2014 you know, the nuts and bolts that hold, say, the wings to the body of the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing needs special new ones for its Dreamliner, since the plane is not made out of aluminum like most aircraft. But the primary supplier, Alcoa, isn&#8217;t making the fasteners quick enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here we see the difference between Boeing and Airbus. Airbus made its problems public as soon a they showed up. Some assembly still required at BoeingBoeing got a $9 billion order today, mostly for its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft. But the company&#8217;s having some problems as it prepares to deliver the jet. Jeremy Hobson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}