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> Spirit Aerosystems, based in Wichita, Kansas, which raised the alarm on the titanium issue Heh, they're the good guys in this story apparently.
> Spirit Aerosystems, based in Wichita, Kansas, which raised the alarm on the titanium issue Heh, they're the good guys in this story apparently.
For anyone reading this, Spirit Aerosystems is -not- Spirit Airlines. Different company, they manufacture aircraft parts for Boeing, Airbus, etc.
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Oddly enough, this one seems to pass at least some testing even despite the phony documentation. This seems to be about this titan: «Boeing and Airbus both said their tests of affected materials so far had shown no signs of problems.» I read this as implying that Airbus has been buying other things from the same source and done its own tests on samples: «“Numerous tests have been performed on parts coming from the sa…
You can't really test. The tests you can do don't actually tell you what you really need to know. You can't prove the material is good, you can only trust that the material is good, and 50 years later observe how it held up. You can't find out the distribution of the alloy ingredients, or detect voids, or crystal structures, or traces of other elements, except by sawing the part in half and looking at the cut surface…
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That's the point. The parent is blaming quality control steps of outsourced materials at Boeing (not third party). "Outsourcing = bad" is missing the point.
Other countries in some cases seem to have much less enforcement of anti fraud. In the US if a company is knowingly selling fraudulent material, I’m guessing they can get in legal trouble for fraud? Does that happen in e.g. China?
How is your question relevant?
I've glanced the article but didn't figure out the source.
Perhaps they came from a certain Republic of Crimea? I've glanced the article but didn't figure out the source.
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And install door plugs (or not, as the case may be)
Hey now, that was done by Boeing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40679599