Posted on 04/03/2019 11:11:57 AM PDT by Yossarian
These days, if it's Boeing, it ain't going.
They knew they knew they knew and even after those last pilots disengaged the computer it reactivated and plunged the plane to the ground.
Too much FOD? I remember when that saying was the opposite.
"Working date" - so it most probably won't even be an an August launch. Way to go with project management, Boeing and NASA!
SpaceX successfully completed their test flight last month.
Pilots and computers are Boeing's 737 Max problem. FOD is Boeing's KC-46 problem. This article is about Boeing's Starliner problem.
You need a scorecard to keep track of Boeing's 2019 problems.
In comments, people are saying the Crewed Dragon didn't fly with a full working environmental control system, and that problems took place in the Dragon - ISS hook-up, by my memory in the area of computer interfacing.
I don't have time to look up the authoritative reports on those potential problems, but it's fair to say that SpaceX isn't perfect either, but looks to be leading this race. The common point of failure is NASA.
...and I completely left out Boeing's SLS problems. Years and years behind schedule, on a program based solely on technology already developed for and proven by the Space Shuttle.
They just need to tweak the Starliner’s MCAS software...
My favorite Starliner was made by Ford in the early 1960’s. Rag top, 390 with a four barrel, and a three speed Ford-O-Matic made for sweet highway cruising.
NASA supposedly solved all these technological problems over fifty years ago, or did they?
http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
Do they have to update the (MCAS)on this vehicle too? : )
“Years and years behind schedule, on a program based solely on technology already developed for and proven by the Space Shuttle.”
It is pretty pathetic. Sold as ‘well it is already proven and off the shelf!’ when it was really just a welfare program for the status quo. SpaceX’s success less to do with some sort of brilliance and more to do with the old guard being gutless dinosaurs run by bean counters.
White with black buckets and a four speed is sweet. I made a mistake. The ragtop was the Sunliner and the Starliner was the pillar-less coupe. It was a long time ago. I was only 14 in 1961.
All under the watchful eye of The Swamp. Congresscritters and their staff, or executive-branch lifers, who don't give a rat's ass about actually executing the goal of the project - EITHER in reality or in spirit - but who care passionately that the sweet, sweet government funding (to be kicked back as campaign contributions) keeps flowing.
Don't even get me started on the James Webb Space Telescope. I'm so angry about that project (Northrup Grumman run) that I could spit!
I think I goofed too, it was a Galaxie 500 with a 390. it was heavy, and would lay rubber for a half block.
How many years late?
How many Billions over ‘promised’ cost?
It's funny how the (well-deserved) disdain for all of the players is almost universal today - in the Sixties you would have been shot by your neighbors if you even hinted that US technological progress was leading us into anything short of an era of omnipotence.
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