I don't think this was ever started as a serious thread and think it would be better to keep it on the light side.
Personally I don't think all the prople at Boeing are idiots - they would never have hotten so large if they were. Truth is that many aircraft components are jobbed out to specialized companies - things like landing gear, APU's, engines .... In this case the batteries, battery charger and electrical system were designed and manufactured by three different aerospace companies - Yuasa (Japanese), Thales (French) and Securaplane Technologies Inc (American).
If there's a joke in there somewhere its more like the story of the blind men describing what an elephant is like based on what part they touched.
Last edited by Burton; 01-22-13 at 04:58 AM.