787-9 Supplier Base Tightens Up

Credit: Alenia Aeronautica
Boeing has shifted Alenia Aeronautica to a secondary role for development and production of the composite horizontal stabilizer for the stretched 787-9 as it also broadens the role of its own factories for the new airplane's vertical stabilizer. The two production moves are not directly connected...

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