Wooden CSeries Mockup Helps Bombardier Fine Tune the Assembly Process

Aircraft builders often construct mockups for marketing purposes. This life-size mockup of the Bombardier CSeries 100 has an entirely different purpose–one that is critical to the new single-aisle airliner meeting its entry-into-service deadline, planned for the end of 2013. Its role is to uncover the inevitable kinks in the assembly process and, as a result, reduce the learning curve typical with the introduction of a new aircraft model by as much as 50 percent.