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...chief of the 787 program, Mike Bair has always had a firm grip on the Dreamliner's development, but that's because he knows when to let go. Bair says Boeing made as significant a change in how it approached systems, avionics and hydraulics as it did in giving more responsibility to its high-cost partner manufacturers such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan and Italy's Alenia/ Vought Aircraft Industries. For example, the specification control document, which explains how to build an electrical-distribution system, was about 2,500 pages for the 777. "[Partners] had to figure...
...Soon enough the moment arrived when Mike Bair, chief of the 787 Program, introduced the Dreamliner. The backdrop parted and sunshine glinted off the blue and white aircraft fresh from the paint shop as it was tugged closer to the building. As is Boeing's tradition, everyone rushed the plane for a closer look; Vivaldi's Four Season's played from the speakers...
...Bair said in an interview Friday that one thing that distinguishes the 787 program is the amount of visibility. "We've been in a fishbowl," he said. "It can be a little aggravating, but it's good." But if the production process has been scrutinized, it's Boeing's own doing. Since production of the Dreamliner was announced in 2003, Boeing has made transparency imperative, especially as international partners assumed more of the heavy lifting and financial risk on the supply end. "We've had a trite little saying that says 'you can't manage a secret,'" said Bair...
...feel like someone broke into my house and tried to rearrange my furniture." DEIRDRE BAIR, author of a biography of the late Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, reacting to publisher Random House's decision to insert two pages of information contradicting her thesis into the German edition of her book at the insistence of Jung's family...
...snapped together at final assembly. To speed the process, Boeing will build three 747s to haul the components. "Instead of huge sections of the 7E7 bobbing around the ocean for a month, we can get them to the final assembly site in a day," says Mike Bair, the head of the plane's development program. "It's far more efficient and will save up to 40% in transportation and inventory costs...