[buzzer]

It seems that boeing won't have enough time in the near future to build the new tanker. They gotta fix this thing first.

[nascarnation]

For those knowledgeable, a question:

Were these problems birthed on Mulally’s watch
or did they occur after he left for Ford?

[=8 mrrabbit 8=]

...and they also have the 737NG thingy hanging over their heads due to the possibility that it is flying under specs it doesn’t meet due to a sub-contractor hand-making parts instead of machine-making. And it is possible that sub-contractor was using illegal alien labor as well.

=8-)

[1rudeboy]

Is the Boeing tanker project based on the 787? (I'm too lazy to look).

And if so, did Boeing know it and try to bribe the Air Force into accepting what is increasingly beginning to appear to be a pile of crap?

[Paladin2]

There’s only two kinds of plastic, .........

[Paladin2]

"With the Dreamliner nearly three years overdue — and a postponement of the mid-February target for first delivery expected to be announced by Christmas"

[hinckley buzzard]

Looks like Boeing's computer models work about as well as the IPCC's. Hope they get it ironed out.

[Brilliant]

No mention of the labor trouble from the local press.

[4rcane]

someone needs to be fired for such a disgraceful delay

[Captain Peter Blood]

One of the main reasons that Boeing has had the problems is the way they conceived how they were going to build the plane to begin with.
Why in the Hell would you want to have different locations laid out all over the world planning and designing, then try and assemble the plane the same way?
It would have made more sense and cost less money to have had the whole operation in one place and to communicate in one language.
Whatever person or persons thought up this Logistics Nightmare should be fired.

[italybub]

They don’t call it the Lazy ‘B’ for no reason. At least they have enough government work they won’t go broke like with the 747 fiasco.

[jnsun]

My engineering friends to a man, and all are, vow over and over the worse thing that has happened to American technical production is MBA's in management.

Even ex-engineers who have become MBA's have diverted their focus.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I found it! I think I found the problem! It’s the globally-distributed manufacturing model.

[Joe Boucher]

Boeing is farming this project out all over the world.
Hate to say it but had they simply kept it in Washington state it would have gone much smoother.

[pterional]

If Boeing would spend less time on social issues like diversity in the work place and hiring affirmative action engineers then they might be able to design and build planes like they did in the 60s and 70s.

Our youth spend more time on the computer and video games than actually building something with their own hands. It is the rare individual that builds Ham radios, RC planes or does home shop machining. Probably a major of the engineers at Boeing haven't even built a kite out of paper and balsa wood and made it fly.

[wolf78]

With the Dreamliner nearly three years overdue — and a postponement of the mid-February target for first delivery expected to be announced by Christmas — analysts estimate Boeing's cost overruns at a staggering $12 billion or more.

If this number is true, it would be truly shocking. It cost Airbus about 15 billion to develop the A380, so 12 billion in overruns is a huge deal.

[jpsb]

Hey Boeing, how is all that global outsourcing working out for you?