Flightglobal:

A 46-page Airbus document titled "Boeing 787 Lessons Learnt" examines key design, weight, engine, certification, production and schedule issues facing the Dreamliner, offering a glimpse inside the industry's competitive intelligence practices. ...

Author: Jon Ostrower

Date: 03 December 2008

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Wow this is incredible, how the heck did Airbus get the proprietary documents from, and more than that, surely it is unethical to use them, even for an internal report?

Oh nothing like a bit of intrigue hey! And i thought this was the period of good cheer and peace to all mankind!!!

Maybe I´m the only one around not having just drop from a tree?

The use of competition´s information tagged "confidential" is common place everyday in the commercial arena, and used extensively by both Airbus and Boeing. Info like the one shown in the Airbus paper is most probably known by hundreds, if no thousands, of people in several places around the world, not just Seattle. So, who can be surprised by this info being known and used internally at Airbus? Actually I haven´t seen any clue of the paper being intended for external use, it is a 100% internal Airbus template.

Maybe we should ask ourselves how the heck Flight International discovers -and publishes- internal info from Boeing or Airbus (concerning development programs, i.e.), well before this info is spread internally among the different departments, not to mention before being presented to potential customers?

vitotls:

I haven´t seen any clue of the paper being intended for external use, it is a 100% internal Airbus template.

That's not the point, it's how they got the proprietry (and supposedly private) documents in the first place, regardless if they wanted to publish them.

As for how Flight has got them, surely that's the point of journalism, to open our eyes to such things!?! I am sure Boeing could have put out an injunction on the release if they wished!