Posted on 04/05/2024 6:57:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
My mom’s late brother (2019) worked at Boeing for the bulk of his career. He would know believe what it has become today.
The globalists know exactly how Fascism works. They've already stretched their tentacles into "easier" industries. The technical ones such as high-end manufacturing are more difficult but the globalists don't care as long as they gain control of them.
Boeing doesn't exist to manufacture airplanes. They manufacture airplanes as an extension of government, government designed to control you.
True dat.
Boeing doesn’t exist to manufacture airplanes. They manufacture airplanes as an extension of government, government designed to control you.
https://cdn.mises.org/the_vampire_economy_20201022.pdf
Doing business under fascism.
An easy read. Pick a chapter that appeals to you.
I believe that you are spot on. My advisor in college was chief engineer for Allison Division of General Motors when he retired and became an engineering professor. He always emphasized that you need to really love the industry you are working in to succeed and for the company to prosper. GM was a very successful company when it was managed by people from the engineering ranks. GM’s demise started when the bean counters took over management of the company.
The “Woke stuff” is all government imposed.
Half of Boeing business is government. If you don’t act the way they want, you lose business. So it’s go along to get along. The Cult Marx gangsters rule everyone.
Doesn’t absolve Calhoun and his GE Finance gangbangers. They’re the bane of the aviation world. And it doesn’t negate your comment about the soulless MBA’s. But the big Kahuna is the weight of the rabid anti-White federal government.
You don’t get flyweight “engineer” Howard McKenzie as Chief Engineer or equally flyweight “COO” Stephanie Pope in charge of BCA for God’s sake without pandering. But that pandering is all about appeasing the Obama gangster state.
If and when that crap were to stop they might recover, but they seem to have doubled down. Most likely they were blackmailed by OBiden: fall on your sword, promote the DEI gang, and we will pull back on the penalties, maybe even add some contracts on the MIL side. So they did.
Won’t save them in the commercial market. The insurers will see to that.
That is so true. I love all the aircraft I worked on. When I see one on a static display, I cannot help but run my hand gently over the skin. I see the anti-smash lights and the wing tip lens glazed over with age, which makes me sad. Sometimes, I can poke my head in the wheel well and still smell that JP-5 exhaust mixed with grease and naugahyde odor (pilots and maintenance people know the odor I speak of) that is so common on military aircraft. Then, just for a moment, it is 1981, and I am on the flight line with my tool kit.
A man can not have two masters. This is what I noticed about groups long ago: they can only have one focus, one goal. As soon as they add a goal, their attention is divided and neither goal is reached; often the group will break up altogether.
Once you hire woke you introduce a cancer into the company. Woke will agitate instead of producing. They will only hire other woke regardless of best qualifications. They will drive out productive workers who don’t want to put up with the woke nonsense. Like a cancer it cannot be reasoned with or appeased. The only hope is, like cancer, to burn, cut, or poison it out and hope you don’t kill the host in the process.
If any two industries on Earth must be run by high-quality and specialized individuals, it's medicine and aircraft manufacture/operation.
Lives count on the results
CH-47s, AH-1s, UH-60s, CH-53s, and a few fixed-wings along the way...
to put it bluntly, all the white guys with crew cuts thin ties white shirts and slide rules have walked out leaving the math is racist crowd and their phones to figure out how a bumblebee flies.
Boeing’s plight is a metaphor for the incremental rot and decay of the Union government and by extension American society. Or is it the other way around?
Very well said.
I started working in a production machine shop in 1971. The shop had a dozen Warner & Swasey turret lathes, mostly WWII vintage. Despite having been run for thousands of hours the machines had held up very well.
In 1985 I set up one of those old lathes for a precision finish-boring job and managed to hold less than 0.002” total variation in diameter when boring a 19” long workpiece. Pretty good for a machine built in Cleveland in 1943.
We used to make some of the very best machine tools in the world.
In 1994 I set up an American 32” engine lathe for a different boring operation. This newly-purchased machine had been in government standby storage since the early 1950s and was in essentially new condition. After performing test-cutting and final leveling I bored a 30” long billet and had less than 0.001” diameter variation overall.
We used to make some of the very best machine tools in the world.
By moving into the shadow of both the Pentagon and Congress, Boeing seems to be signaling it has lost the commercial race to Airbus and wants to be seen as primarily a defense and space contractor.
The fact that the announcement comes the same week Airbus (EADSF) revealed it’s increasing production of commercial jets at its factory in Mobile, Alabama, only seems to drive home that point.
“One company is saying ‘We’re going to build lots of jets.’ The other is saying ‘We’re going to lobby the Pentagon and Congress for defense dollars.’ It’s a big contrast,” said Richard Aboulafia, managing director at AeroDynamic Advisory and a leading aerospace analyst.
“Sometimes, I can poke my head in the wheel well and still smell that JP-5 exhaust mixed with grease and naugahyde odor...Then, just for a moment, it is 1981, and I am on the flight line with my tool kit.”
The F-4 Phantom, AKA “Double Ugly”. The 1980s. Flying with guy who had flown in Vietnam.
Sigh.
In some fields, love doesn’t matter. But in flying?
And thanks for the memories. I sometimes had issues with my senior officers, but the guys on the flightline were awesome!
Well, GE was never in the machine tool business, except that they produced computer controls for them. But yes, the American industry built machines that would last, and could be rebuilt again and again. It would never surprise me to see a 40 or 50 year old Bullard still at work making jet engine parts or fuel pumps for Musk's rocket engines.
Well, GE was never in the machine tool business, except that they produced computer controls for them. But yes, the American industry built machines that would last, and could be rebuilt again and again. It would never surprise me to see a 40 or 50 year old Bullard still at work making jet engine parts or fuel pumps for Musk's rocket engines.
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