[NorthMountain]

How did FR react when the FAA grounded 737-MAX?

It was with approval.

But Boeing is part of the hated "military industrial complex", so verbally defecating on Boeing is OK.

SpaceX is an all-holy private company, so any government action unfavorable to it is demonic. (Never mind all the USAF/USSF and NRO launches ...)

There's a lot of hypocrisy on this forum.

[dangus]

>> How did FR react when the FAA grounded 737-MAX? <<

Hundreds of people died. SpaceX’s explosion was the conclusion to a successful test flight.

[RainMan]

Not only was the Rocket explosion on a test flight (not a payload or passenger carrying launch), but it also actually went far higher than they hoped for. The original goal was simply to launch. In fact, they said multiple times that everything after clearing the tower is just icing on the cake.

It had 35 engines, and I think 8 of them did not ignite properly, which they knew about before the rocket was blown up. They got to 30KM altitude and 2105 Km/H, thru the flip for stage separation, but it did not separate, so they blew it up on purpose about 4 minutes into the flight. The plan was that it was going to be blown up somewhere.

Contrast that to the 737-MAX. I am from Seattle, and Boeing put food on the table and a roof over my head from the day I was born ... dad worked there. Love Boeing, but they fudged test data, had a known issue, and put planes in service that you and I might have hopped onto, not knowing that there were conditions which, if met, would have guaranteed our deaths. Nothing to do with "military industrial complex" my friend, it has to do with Boeing put passengers in harm's way, and SpaceX fully broadcast their test and exceeded even their own expectations. Plus NASA is not one to talk about Rocket explosions after they screwed the pooch on Challenger and all the circle-jerk maneuvers they did to make sure nothing stopped the launch.

Anyway, if you want to see the Falcon Heavy launch in question, here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTlKEDvRC4w

[Glad2bnuts]

I seem not to remember passengers on a rocket that blew up. Is it now the new normal for the FAA to force changes on experimental flights on unmanned vehicles? That reeks of prior restraint.

We are well on the way to the fictional world of Ayn Rand here. Shut down oil exploration, no coal, no NG appliances, and no more reaching for the stars.

Hell, we even drained our strategic reserve we filled at $2.50 a gallon, and will have to be refilled, if ever at $6.00 per gallon. When they do that, the price at the pump will further skyrocket. As resources are diverted and with the Dollar now longer accepted as payment for oil, we will be in unrecoverable terror-tory. May as well cede all sovereignty at that point under President Tranny.

[CodeToad]

You compltely missed the entire points of the Boeing and SpaceX situations. Seems you have a hatred for Musk.

[pierrem15]

Boeing executives knowingly expanded the number and scope of projects while slashing engineering and quality control and moved production from skilled union labor to unskilled non-union labor.

The end result was tankers that the Air Force refused to accept due to quality issues including tools and parts bouncing around fuel tanks and the deaths of hundreds of passengers due to flaws in 737-Max.

Meanwhile, Boeing also got billions in contracts from NASA for the Starliner capsule that is so riddled with defects it will probably never fly.

Both SpaceX and Boeing are private companies. Boeing used to be a jewel in the crown of American tech and engineering, but the same rapacity that saw GE and others hollowed out in the pursuit of fraudulent "cost-cutting" designed to boost stock prices artificially and executive compensation have ruined the company. So of course the corporate-fascist regime indicts a handful of low level employees and demands no clawback from the executive class for whom they really work.