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Re:Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B... by bazqux2 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:08PM (#11347773)
A subcontractor can make way more money by internally making parts of substandard quality to ensure they get bought.
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Re:Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B... by Jtsummers on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:13PM (#11347814)
This was not deliberate in the cases I'm thinking of. This was a lack of quality control due to the extreme distributed design and development approach Boeing chose with the 787.
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