Altitude Aerospace of Montreal can take some credit for helping to save Bombardier Inc.’s bacon when it had to scramble fast — and on the QT — to prevent a Chinese supplier from delaying its CSeries airliner.
Dimitri Gauthier-Arapoglou, director of marketing and business development for the 7-year-old engineering firm, said Altitude Aerospace came to the rescue by shedding 220 pounds — about 100 kilos — from the combined weight of eight doors on the aircraft in development that is supposed to fly within the next two months.
The work had been done by China’s Shenyang Aircraft Corp., which was incapable of bringing the doors down to their nominal weight, a spec in the marching orders that suppliers are given by aircraft-makers.
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Shenyang was supposed to supply the complete CSeries centre fuselage, which is not simply an empty tube, but a large and sophisticated component incorporating wiring, harnesses and other sub-assemblies.
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The finished section is a key part of the complex assembly process.
Aerospace consultant Richard Aboulafia of Teal Group in Fairfax, Va., long predicted that Shenyang was not up to the task, and that it would delay the CSeries. He has been proven half-right, so far.
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