{"id":199966,"date":"2007-06-14T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/14\/boeing-supplier-vought-outlines-787-challenges-schedule-slippage\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T12:46:00","slug":"boeing-supplier-vought-outlines-787-challenges-schedule-slippage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/14\/boeing-supplier-vought-outlines-787-challenges-schedule-slippage\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing supplier Vought Outlines 787 Challenges (Schedule Slippage)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two notes on this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For most of the time that I was at United Defense (later BAE Systems), Elmer Doty was Vice President &#038; General Manager, Ground. Systems Division<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Boeing has <b>VERY<\/b> aggressively spread technally &#8220;bleeding edge&#8221; portions of 787 manufacture to outside vendors, where potential delays are largely invisible.  I would expect the 787 deliveries to be delayed, though perhaps not as much as the Airbus a380.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/11\/214563\/boeing-supplier-vought-outlines-787-challenges.html\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Boeing supplier Vought outlines 787 challenges<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key Boeing 787 supplier Vought Aircraft Industries has disclosed it is facing \u201congoing schedule slippage\u201d in obtaining parts it is supposed to install before shipping fuselage sections to Boeing, a company memo obtained by the Seattle press reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after it was reported the head of 787 operations at Vought, Ted Perdue, had left the company, Vought CEO Elmer Doty sent a memo to employees setting clear the firm faced challenges but noting it was acting quickly to address the issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two notes on this: For most of the time that I was at United Defense (later BAE Systems), Elmer Doty was Vice President &#038; General Manager, Ground. Systems Division Boeing has VERY aggressively spread technally &#8220;bleeding edge&#8221; portions of 787 manufacture to outside vendors, where potential delays are largely invisible. I would expect the 787 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199966"}],"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=199966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}