Do Boeing hand-make aeroplanes?

I toured Boeing facilities in Seattle many years ago. Aircraft assembly itself is fairly boring. It takes a year to assemble a big plane going through 12 assembly stations. Most interesting was their machine shop and I was impressed to see a wing assembled out of one piece of aluminum. We also saw their composite making facilities. They had autoclaves big enough to put in a bus. Every completed composite part was tested for flaws. Also went through their research labs and was impressed that they were still testing parts on planes that had been flying for decades to make sure a flaw would not show up. Boeing folks are very meticulous in making a good product.

OMFG I'm never flying again.

And see the good old Structures book:

I've seen all sorts of weird things on military planes and helicopters at an airbase when they're parked. Rotor blades tied down, covers over vents etc.

See .....

A wing spar may be one piece but not the whole wing including the internal fuel tanks or skin.

As is typical for you Frank, your "facts" are way off.

It takes about 53 days for Boeing to assemble and paint a 777, less than two months. Flight testing takes another 30 days, so it is about

Here is a citation:

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How Long Does it Take to Build a Boeing 777? - AirlineReporter : AirlineReporter

ROTFPMSL!

Of course, that's where the rivets come in.

And, IIRC, using a riveting technique involving punching through undersized holes. This might have been acceptable on a WW2 bomber which was unlikely to survive too long before being shot down anyway but certainly not on a commercial airliner designed to fly above the weather with a pressurised cabin for passenger comfort.

The lessons learned were to avoid stress concentration forces (round or oval windows) and to accurately drill the rivet holes to match the rivet shank diameter.

I saw that ay Vickers in Weybridge in the 1960s, Wings for VC10s were made that way. I also went round Marshall's works at Cambridge in 1983 where they were converting Tristars (made by Lockheed) into airborne tankers for the RAF. The people there was appaled at the excessive number of holes in the fuselage spars where the interior trim hasd been fitted. Some spars had to be replaced!.

I wasn't talking about it not being parallel, but that if you follow the line of rivets, it wiggles about as though it's been done by hand.

More likely the Irish "workmanship".