Saturday, May 24, 2008

Spirit AeroSystems Snags Airbus A350 Fuselage Section 15

Sprint just signed a contract with Airbus to design and build this component. (See picture below)




The kicker is that until 2005, Spirit was Boeing, but they spun the company off to appease shareholders, and now the expertise, including experience with the complex composite structures it developed for the 787, will be benefiting Airbus.

Boeing's aircraft's current business model appears to be similar to the Lead System Integrator (LSI) concept that has consistently underperformed in all of its large defense related contracts so badly that Congress is looking to ban the practice.

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