I'd feel a lot better if they started making these...
Posted on 01/05/2022 3:36:58 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
After almost three years of crisis, with Boeing still facing immense challenges, two top Boeing leaders in exclusive interviews laid out their strategy: hunker down, fix the litany of current problems and rely on a revamp of the company’s engineering culture to restore Boeing’s stained reputation.
Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said Boeing, for all its current problems, is in a better position than it was a year ago. “We see a much clearer path” in 2022, he said.
Boeing Chief Engineer Greg Hyslop said recovery begins with the company’s 52,000 engineering staff. “We’re going to lead with engineering excellence,” he said.
Both executives deflected or flatly refused to answer questions about the engineering design mistakes that led to the two fatal 737 MAX crashes that have so damaged Boeing’s image.
This is a tough moment for Boeing.
The company is loaded with $42 billion of net debt; manufacturing defects have halted deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner; the MAX is back in service but its sales badly trail the competing Airbus jet.
In 2021, settlements with the U.S. government and victims’ families largely lifted the legal threats flowing from the two tragic crashes. Yet the reputational damage lingers. A new book and two major feature documentaries set to air in 2022 all portray a steep cultural decline at Boeing.
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Boeing Bosses need to evacuate ChIraq and return to the Pacific NW.
I hope Boeing gets its act together. It reminds me of inept old GM when accountants & MBAs start thinking that they can actually engineer something more complex than a screwdriver. It’s easy to lose a reputation and hard to get it back.
Yep.
“Both executives deflected or flatly refused to answer questions about the engineering design mistakes that led to the two fatal 737 MAX crashes that have so damaged Boeing’s image.”
They let MBAs overrule engineers. No more complicated than that.
I fully expect a smaller company to come in and start cleaning both Boeing and Airbus’s clock through nimbleness and ingenuity....similar to what Tesla has done over the past x # of years with the big auto makers.
I'd feel a lot better if they started making these...
787 Max 8.....old news.
Larger diameter turbofans wouldn't fit under the wings. Everything from the decision point of moving the engines forward instead of designing and building a new airframe was caught in that flaw.
The unstable weight/balance/thrust ratios were countered with computer software and actuators. While that's done on some planes such as the F-16, F-117, and B-2, (all with ejection seats), assuming such risk for a passenger jet led to the inevitable crashes.
In contrast, pilots have dead-stick landed other full size jets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Boeing knowingly lied, cheated and killed people.
And to this day still aren’t being honest and trying to blame pilots for their behavior..
There are people working at Boeing who should be facing 300+ counts of second degree murder… conspiracy to commit second degree murder.. etc and not a damn thing is going to happen to them
That reminds me, I should polish my old Grumman Canoe.
Yeh, for sure. Boeing has had a long string of successes going back to the Pan Am Clipper. So, it was time for a good cleansing and recalibration. Folks get sloppy and complacent over time. It happens.
Boeing is broken. Probably not fixable.
They need to pay more attention on their jobs and less on gay pride week lobby displays. Those were disgusting when I had to walk past them.
Even with heavily mandated diversity?
“I’d feel a lot better if they started making these... “
During my AF career, I flew and tested some of the fastest and also flew the C-47. That was one of the most solid and well designed planes I’ve had the pleasure to fly. About the only way to crash that thing was to fly it into the ground. To me, it’s still a beautiful bird. (I used to joke that the top speed of the goon wasn’t enough to get my F-15 to nosewheel liftoff.)
As I recall it was the Boeing 757 that had most everything going for it rather than the 737MAX except the pilots had to get trained and certified for that jet and that was to Boeing, an unacceptable cost.
Airbus has superior products in every class - with the possible exception of the newer 777 models. Airbus is going to have to make mistakes for Boeing to get back into the game.
They need to develop and produce a real game changer in civil aviation. Something that leaps over what is done now by a generation or two. A blended wing design or a supersonic aircraft. Boeing has got to do something exciting.
An Eagle pilot? What a ride!!! Thanks for all you did!!!
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