Originally Posted by ghrocketman

Boeing continues to be BOZOeing.

Hilarious about Airbuss landing with nose gear crossed 90? to the travel direction.
I imagine the situation in actuality just results in a skidding tire perpendicular to the travel direction and eventual blown tires.

Originally Posted by Winston2021

Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
American Prospect
28 Mar 2024

https://prospect.org/infrastructure...mission-boeing/

Excerpt:

...Swampy was mired in an institution that was in a perpetual state of unlearning all the lessons it had absorbed over a 90-year ascent to the pinnacle of global manufacturing. Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of "knowledge" that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding "thought" and "understanding" and "complex reasoning" possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs. CEO Jim McNerney, who joined Boeing in 2005, had last helmed 3M, where management as he saw it had "overvalued experience and undervalued leadership" before he purged the veterans into early retirement.

"Prince Jim" as some long-timers used to call him, repeatedly invoked a slur for longtime engineers and skilled machinists in the obligatory vanity "leadership" book he co-wrote. Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were "phenomenally talented [plural anal reference]," and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving the company. He initially refused to let nearly any of these talented [plural anal reference] work on the 787 Dreamliner, instead outsourcing the vast majority of the development and engineering design of the brand-new, revolutionary wide-body jet to suppliers, many of which lacked engineering departments. The plan would save money while busting unions, a win-win, he promised investors. Instead, McNerney's plan burned some $50 billion in excess of its budget and went three and a half years behind schedule.

Originally Posted by tdracer

To be fair, a lot of the incidents with Boeing aircraft that have been reported over the last three months happen on a regular basis - regardless of manufacturer.

Originally Posted by ghrocketman

I think the sensationalistic finger pointing at Boeing is largely misdirected and absurd.
Most of the incidents point toward poor maintenance and have nothing to do with aircraft BRAND.

Originally Posted by ghrocketman

I think the sensationalistic finger pointing at Boeing is largely misdirected and absurd.
Most of the incidents point toward poor maintenance and have nothing to do with aircraft BRAND.

Originally Posted by BEC

I saw where in the design process they wanted to hand the engineering off to the suppliers on 787 and was so very glad I never got involved in that disaster though I certainly could have if I'd wanted to.

Since then....well, enough's been written. I had better not say much more. I am living off of a Boeing pension. I hope it will last as long as I need it to.