Posted on 06/14/2025 10:14:22 AM PDT by CFW
Boeing’s Air Force One project has fallen years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget amid continued labor and design hiccups. The Government Accountability Office said in a report this week that “ongoing design issues, modification rework, and workforce challenges” are still plaguing the manufacturer. The Trump administration has resorted to procuring a $400 million jet from Qatar to serve as the interim Air Force One.
Boeing is continuing to battle production issues plaguing the jets that will serve as Air Force One, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The Pentagon told the congressional auditors that “ongoing design issues, modification rework, and workforce challenges slowed the progress toward modifying two Boeing 747-8 aircraft into presidential aircraft,” a report released Wednesday said.
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“Boeing still faces challenges hiring and retaining qualified mechanics due to ongoing market conditions, according to VC-25B officials,” the report said. “Program officials said that approval rates for mechanics to acquire necessary clearances remain a workforce limitation.”
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I'm sure you've all seen those employment ads that include the sentence "Persons from marginalized communities will be given the highest consideration" which basically means "White people, don't bother to submit your resume".
Maybe Boeing should start including a sentence reading "White men, who have been discriminated in hiring over the past few years, are encouraged to apply and will be given the highest consideration".
Time to end the Federal relationship with Boeing!!
50/hrs plus OT.
Can’t find enough to pass cannabis screening.
Incompetence must be punished - ruthlessly - every time it is encountered.
This from "My name is Sasha, and I am a newsroom fellow at Fortune covering the intersection of internet culture and business...."
"Last fall, Boeing announced plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, despite industrywide talent shortages?" Hiccups. Changes and changes to designs? Hiccups.
This article from Fortune is an apologia for Boeing management, under the last administration and its Democrat-driven "diversity" games.
DEI and Illegal hiring will do that.
My father worked for 39 years as an inspector for McDonnell Douglas before it became Boeing. A lot of men from my town spent their entire working lives there too. These were men who built the planes. Of course, they were all white, and I am talking about ancient history, so you might be on to something.
Every worker on AF1 must have top security clearances, so finding people is doubly hard.
While everyone loves to talk about the pilot shortage, nobody discusses the upcoming mechanic shortage. It’s gonna be much worse for the industry.
“”””White people, don’t bother to submit your resume”. “”
Yup. I was a contractor for years and most government contracts were given with language that said you will hire anyone but whitey. I had a number of run-ins with the Minneapolistan Department of Civil Rights over this. I once told them that I am a Norwegian which is certainly a minority in the area where the job was. They didn’t think it was as funny as I did.
https://www.boeing.com/#people
Look at the homepage of the Boeing website, scroll all the way down. It’s a tableau of a blue haired back woman or tranny, other groups of women and minorities etc.
One look at their website homepage would let a white man know EXACTLY what he was getting in for.
Use the Qatar 747-8 until then.
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The Qatari jet needs upgrades and modification that cost more than the jet is worth - in excess of $400 million.
It’s because with he McDD merger Boeing became bottom line oriented, pushes out pretty much anybody that points out they’re having quality problems, doesn’t pay engineers for crap, and anybody that actually wants to be proud of their work leaves.
Boeing ain’t Boeing anymore. Hasn’t been for a long time. Which is why they’re planes keep falling out of the sky. And they can’t manage to finish AF1. Which is probably doing Trump a favor, since you can’t trust their planes to stay in the air anyway.
The next page about jobs is nearly 100% black, female, Indians, and Asians. It’s pretty clear that they do not want white men.
The Qatar “gift” is junk. It’s a plane they had been trying to sell for years. It’s post dated as a “regular” plane, and to be AF1 needs YEARS of refit. It should be in one of the many airplane boneyard.
Boeing is a lobbying organization with a side business that does aerospace.
More hiring and promoting of unqualified minorities will fix the problem.
“I once told them that I am a Norwegian which is certainly a minority”
It’s entirely reasonable. Categorizing every sub-ethnicity on Earth as a “Protected Class” except anyone of Caucasian genetics is absurd and nothing but a racket.
“ Time to end the Federal relationship with Boeing!!”
I would like to see what kind of contract it is. Boeing is on the hook for a fixed price contract.
If I was still in business I would just fill out the forms and say I identify as a black lesbian trans cis non binary.
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