Posted on 04/08/2022 9:57:06 AM PDT by Rio
The Wall Street Journal reports that one of Boeing’s two next-generation Air Force Ones could have been damaged when workers attempted to shift the under-construction jet onto jacks.
The weight on the jacks was reportedly well in excess of what they were designed to hold, and officials were reportedly concerned that the aircraft could have been damaged.
The Air Force did not find any damage, but its investigation instead determined that Boeing crews didn’t follow established procedure and that one employee wasn’t properly credentialed to supervise the work. Another later failed a routine drug test.
The Air Force requested that Boeing improve its operations, and a spokeswoman told the Journal that the matter was corrected and steps taken to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Boeing’s multi-billion-dollar Air Force One program was already months behind schedule, and the latest disclosure isn’t the only embarrassing episode from their construction: reports last year said Boeing was investigating how a couple of empty mini-bottles of tequila found their way onto one of the jets at its San Antonio facility.
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They’ve been joined at the hip with fedgov for so long, they’re becoming as efficient as fedgov.
It might be easier to tally up how many people aren’t potheads in Seattle.
Their fraud and lies murdered what 400 people recently, and and the result so far has been they charged 1 scapegoat chief technical pilot and he was acquitted.
Why should they care? They know they can be incompetent and lie and cheat and cut corners, and kill people without facing any direct punishment.
The Russkies drugged the employees—everybody knows that.
;-)
They just caused us to quit or retire, rather than deal with their Beancounter mentality.
There’s a lot of speculation that Boeing is on the way out.
“Accidents happened all the time with forks too high, too low, too wide, etc”
The problem where I worked was that it’s entirely to difficult to fire government employees.
I’ve represented several Boeing employees trying to get Yankee White access. All of them smoke or smoked weed, and their only defense is, “Dude, it’s legal in Washington...”. So far, no joy.
Boeing goes Boing.
At least on employee working on the jets went Bong.
Air Farce One.
747-8 MAX.
Delaying delivery so as to deny their use to Trump who ordered them.
Already delayed at least one year, until the end of 2025.
Expect MORE delays so that Trump never flies on them as Air Force One
Of course. That's why I'm excited to see private companies in space. Yes, I know that SpaceX has worked with NASA on certain technicalities. Don't know if Bezos' Blue Origin did the same.
It amazes me that NASA is building new rockets for the purpose going back to the moon, fro what purpose? Musk is building a commercial space flight system and looking towards Mars. Then there is his Starlink satellite array.
How is it that NASA with all their rocket/engineering expertise never developed a reusable main booster that could turn around and land on a platform? The main boosters have always been a large expense of a space program. That's one reason we started using Russian rockets for satellites and missions to the ISS.
Bezos is looking to build a commercial space station, but won't be finished until the end of decade. While I don't like Bezos' politics, I say the more private space endeavors the better.
“And Boeing wants to compete with Musk and Bezos for next generation spacecraft?”
Boeing is receiving more government develop dollars than Musk, and more dollars per flight. Musk is flying humans to the international space station Boeing and Space X were given contracts in 2014 for the reusable capsule. Space X has been flying astronauts to the space station. The 2019 unmanned test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule was unsuccessful and the scheduled second test for August 2021 was scrubbed. Boeing now claims it will run the second unmanned test by May 22.
Boeing received a $4.2 billion NASA contract to complete and certify the Starliner by 2017, while SpaceX won a $2.6 billion contract to complete and certify their crewed Dragon spacecraft. Space X begin flying astronauts to the space station on its Dragon spacecraft in May 2020.
Boeing has been considered the leading United States aerospace company for decades. In September 2001, after 85 years, the company moved its corporate headquarters from Seattle, close to the factories and R&D, to a $200 million skyscraper in Chicago, distancing its executives from the daily operations of the company. Since then the company has been plagued with issues including the 737 MAX aircraft and delays of major programs such as the Starliner.
Taxpayers might question why NASA paid Boeing $1.6 billion more than Space X to develop its reusable manned spacecraft and if the government has charged Boeing penalties for its failure to deliver an operational spacecraft given Space X’s success. After 20 years Boeing stockholders might question if the $200 million investment in the Chicago headquarters, plus the $50 million in donations by Boeing to Chicago area organizations, has been worthwhile. Perhaps the executives should move back to Seattle and spend their time on improving performance instead of devoting time and money on climate change, CRT and other woke social initiatives.
Thank you for the detailed info.
We only need one. If B52s can fly forever, so can those things.
The kit was significantly more sophisticated than anything Bondo made...
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