Yes, and companies requiring jet travel of their employees could mandate they fly only on this experimental airliner model OR LOSE THEIR JOBS.
It seems racist not to fly on this plane.
I’ve flown on the 777 a few times. Depending on the configuration, it’s not really as comfortable as any other jet not even in first class. Sleeper seats are like a hard padded futon.
I have no idea the difference between a 777 and 777x - I am guessing software. But maybe like the 737Max they moved the engines and reinforced the wings.
Did fly a 787 once. Relatively short distance for what it is capable of. Nicer.
The problem that Boeing has is that the FAA used to trust companies to do much of their regulatory work - more or less to ‘self certify’ the details of their designs, with the reasonable expectation that the manufacturers knew they had far more to lose if a design was defective and led to a crash.
And the system worked, for decades. But then Boeing decided that paper-pushers from outside with top-rated stock options were better than serious managers at the top and looked for ‘cost savings’ and found the obvious weakness in the FAA system - it required ‘trust’.
So, they tossed that out and made their design on the cheap and self-certified that design. In the particular case of the crashes, Boeing, of course, knew that crashes weren’t good, but they also knew that well-trained pilots could handle those situations. And if the pilots weren’t well-trained, then they get the blame and Boeing washes their hands. ehhh - doesn’t quite work that way, though.
So, why did it take years instead of weeks to start flying the Max again, when a few lines of code would do the trick? Because what other skeletons were being hidden by Boeing...it takes time to dig-in, and they did find at least one in the wiring (and probably lots more).
So on to the 777-X...the problem with that plane is that the FAA now trusts NOTHING from Boeing, and has to go through every detail of every system with a microscope.
...and all to save a few bucks on the Max.
this crowd is brutal lol
All Boeing planes are listed as experimental until sold; that way they don’t have to pay some sort of taxes to WA.
I’d volunteer to go on a verification flight on a 777X, or any new Boeing or Airbus. The Max problem made Boeing, the FAA and the accident airlines look bad. Boeing has the deepest pockets, so the Max was their fault. New airplanes are incredibly safe, both Boeing and Airbus. Competent pilots would not have crashed either of the Max aircraft. consider what Captain Sulley did with the Airbus on the Hudson or Captain Haynes did with the DC-10 in Souix City.
The Boeing 777X is the latest series of the long-range, wide-body, twin-engine Boeing 777 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777X features new GE9X engines, new composite wings with folding wingtips, greater cabin width and seating capacity, and technologies from the Boeing 787. The 777X was launched in November 2013 with two variants: the 777-8 and the 777-9. The 777-8 provides seating for 384 passengers and has a range of 8,730 nmi (16,170 km) while the 777-9 has seating for 426 passengers and a range of over 7,285 nmi (13,500 km). The 777-9 first flew on January 25, 2020, with deliveries expected to commence in late 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X
Why not approve on an “experimental basis”, like the vaccines? It’s not everybody has fly on this one plane, just take volunteers
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Then, if the plane should happen to ‘fall out of the sky’, the manufacturer will not be held liable and the victims will be told they didn’t REALLY have to go if they didn’t want to even though they were ‘coerced’ into boarding with free baseball tickets, lottery tickets, tacos etc etc etc
Then when it all falls apart, the Government can just say oh well, the ‘science’ said it would work so it must be the fault of PDJT and ‘white supremacists’
Or something along that line