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Inside the Boeing 787

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Boeing took a multibillion-dollar gamble with the 787, betting on high-tech construction and a world-wide supply chain using digital blue print files that told engineers if everything would fit together.
Cutaway illustration: Tim Bicheno-Brown - FlightGlobalImages.com; Graphic Ninian Carter; Peter Cheney FlightGlobal.com; Graphic News; Photo: Ken Dejarlais - Boeing; Sources: Boeing; Airbus; Seattle Times

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