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A never ending nightmare for Boeing, losses soar as it faces issues with all its new passenger jets
The bad news keeps piling up for Boeing as the 777X gets delayed to 2025, the 787 faces a multitude of issues, and the company struggles to meet the 737 MAX 10’s certification deadline of end of year 2022... (www.aviationweekly.org) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Holy cow I guess billing has forgot how to build airplanes that fly without incredible errors of some kind or another it’s baffling.
Since merger with McD. Boeing is no longer a trusted company.
All this "single point of failure" finger-pointing is pure BS. There are both horrors and heroes all over the Aviation industry. In the "roaring 20s" there were a hundred plus companies that made flying machines for profit, with a "normal distribution" to both quality and ethics among them. Competitive & external forces have pared down the field after the last hundred years to a handful of megacorporations, designing and building via a mashed-up quagmire of contracts and sub-contractors that in no way reflect either the genius nor the villainy of their founders. These modern corporations are poorly programmed robots, loosely guided by narcissistic managers wearing spectacles that "correct" their vision to 20-200 near-sighted, lumbering toward "goals" that do not comprehend either the real-world impact of actually accomplishing them nor which real-world feedback loops will return the most energy. They seem a bit like a John Maynard Keynes nightmare. Perhaps hinted at by an unconfirmed quote once attributed to Trotsky, "If the capitalists actually do fail one day, it will most assuredly not be due to the efforts of my comrades. It will be due to their own excesses."
If you trust any of them, Verify.
If you trust any of them, Verify.
I believe that Douglas was a trusted company. I gave us the DC-3, DC-7, A-4 Phantom. I would say that the F-15 and F-18 were also born at Douglas.
McDonell seems to be the problem.
McDonell seems to be the problem.
Yes, the "DC" in the DC Series is "Douglas Commercial". The A-4 is a Skyhawk, "Heinemann's Hot-Rod" and yes, defiantly Douglas. The Phantom was the F-4, and originated in St. Louis with McDonnell, as did the F-15. F-18 is not really a thing, but more on that in a minute. But, the FA-18 certainly did not originate at Douglas, it is based on a design that competed with F-16 Falcon for contracts under the "Light Fighter" RFP the Air Force let in the late sixties. Northrup was the bidder and the Air Force named their entry the F-17. Yeah, they lost because the AF preferred a single-engine because that gave the F-16 a bit better range. But the Navy had long preferred twins (reliability over water) and anyway they had also already started carrier quals on hardware to provide peer-to-peer mid-air refueling, so the range issue was no issue for them. BUT... the Navy did not think Northrup had the physical resources to build as many planes as they knew they would need, nor did they think they had the Navel Engineering expertise to convert the design to a "NAVY plane" in a timely fashion. SO the NAVY arranged a deal where Northrop sold the whole project with all design work done so far to the newly formed McDonnell-Douglas, and they converted it into an FA-18 Hornet.
Thanks for the clarification.
Well, you forget about the problematic DC10.