[HN Gopher] Boeing CEO says planemaker could be forced to cancel...
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Boeing CEO says planemaker could be forced to cancel 737 Max 10
Author : thecosmicfrog
Score : 24 points
Date : 2022-07-08 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
| ralph84 wrote:
| Well, yes, when you are unable or unwilling to build the product
| to modern safety standards, you should be forced to cancel it.
| caycep wrote:
| is the consensus that Boeing's engineering prowess is
| unrecoverable now, post-McDD merger?
| sklargh wrote:
| I don't know if that is the consensus but I struggle to find
| a major program there that isn't completely rotten.
| MilStdJunkie wrote:
| Yeah, I challenge anyone to show me a unconditionally
| successful Boeing program post 2000 AD. Please. Please show
| one to me. I am begging you here.
|
| Aboulafia had like fifty graphs on exactly how Boeing is
| doomed, at least as a unified company; they might survive
| in pieces after a GE-style split. Big B is spending all
| their money on precisely the wrong products, and leaving
| the right products to die on the vine.
|
| This . . this must be what it was like with the late stage
| evolution of the Soviet design bureaus, but far, far, far
| worse. With somehow less accountability.
|
| No one inside knows what anyone else is doing, and they're
| this close to just shipping boxes of parts and marking off
| a successful delivery of a finished good.
|
| How Boeing has avoided the Mother Lode of all Fines is a
| mystery to me. Except it's not really a mystery, we all
| know why, but . . please let me keep my illusions.
| ethbr0 wrote:
| MQ-25
|
| F/A-18E/F
|
| 777
| einpoklum wrote:
| Ah great, then US carriers could use their ordered 737-MAX 10's
| to run all of those flights they keep cancelling lately. Silver
| lining folks!
| epolanski wrote:
| What's the point of this plane? It's not that cheap, it's not
| that good for fuel efficiency, it misses most modern (decade old)
| systems like eicas. Seems another odd Boeing plane that woukd
| only sell because the competition cannot fill all orders.
| justapassenger wrote:
| It being a refresh of old design, means it's cheaper to retrain
| people (don't have to full training for the totally different
| aircraft), a lot of your supporting infrastructure can stay the
| same while being cheaper to operate.
|
| And, in theory (ahm, MAX had some tiny, minor issues there)
| should be safe and reliable, as it's based on well known and
| tested platform.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| One of the charges in the MAX crashes were that _it did_ need
| a whole new training class
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| That's a very nice way of saying that it finds a way to
| extract profit from regulatory systems which 10yr olds could
| poke holes in. /hj
| ralph84 wrote:
| Boeing ended production of the 757 18 years ago and they still
| have no strategy for a successor besides more duck tape on the
| 737.
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| Easy baggage loading at remote airports.
| Fargoan wrote:
| Trash it and send some executives and managers to prison
| ethbr0 wrote:
| >> _" the debts that we've had to accumulate"_
|
| Like the $5B (and counting) for bungling the KC-46 design?
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus#Flight_...
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