The following photographs show an Airbus A321 being assembled over the course of six months in a new facility in Mobile, Ala. The ships from Hamburg steam into Mobile Bay several times a month. What happens in Mobile doesn’t resemble manufacturing so much as the assembly of a particularly large and tremendously complicated piece of Ikea furniture. Many of the supervisors come from the continent, too; the Mobile factory manager was raised about 10 miles from the wing plant in Wales. And the company says that it saves no money by building planes in Mobile.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2017 09:00 UTC