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Originally posted by mora
I wasn't talking about the pictures only. What's so damn secret about joining parts of an 35 years old airplane. Especially as this information is most certainly available in the products service manuals etc. If you think you can't disclose that information, then why did you bother replying in the first place?
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mora,
At the risk of being considered an bellybutton or being accused of feeding the fire, did you ever stop to consider that perhaps the joining process has evolved over the past 35 years? I know the 747 fuselage skin panel assembly process has certainly evolved. Does my company want to share that technology? Depends on how much you want to invest....
As far as the tour goes, it's one thing to permit the competition to "look" at an assembly/manufacturing process, but to photograph the process and turn that information over to your engineering/tooling staff could put the host company at a competitive disadvantage.
I wonder when was the last time EADS toured a Boeing plant? 
Chance
