What a great illustration of systemic dysfunctional quality control manifest at today’s “modern” Boeing-NASA. Its now obvious to even the dumbest employee that the new-improved company wide policies are new only. Some 350 people are dead as a result if you trace this back to the 737Max disasters. I worked for Boeing in 2005-2010 when the first 787 came off the line at Everett. Looking back...I can remember the same kind of development blunders all the way to Airbus’s A380. The 787 had the exact same kind of problems with roots traceable to foreign engineers using a totally different computer aided design software...resulting in utter communication breakdowns. The 787 airframe was built all over the world and pieces shipped to Everett to assemble like a puzzle...except the pieces didnt fit together. Was great overtime for the mechanics though.
Truly. One of my sons is an aerospace welding engineer, and it was his DREAM to work for NASA, and his dream was fulfilled shortly after grad school a few years ago. He works closely with Boeing and is absolutely miserable and shocked at the dysfunction. He’s now interviewing at other places, needless to say.