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  1. 17 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Ukraine is providing far more data.  

    And the targeted ships are probably 100s or 1000s of times the cost of the drones and missiles, as well as the missiles we are using to shoot them down.  

    Last time I checked we didn't have any Naval assets shooting down Russian cruise missiles or drones.  

     

    If the Houthis really wanted to sink those oil tankers.  They would pull a USS Cole type shit.  Which did happen in Yemen.  The Houthis and the pirates have already proven recently that they can get up to and take over an oil tanker.  If they loaded that thing up with 500 lbs of explosives instead of 3 humans.  They would sink an oil tanker easily.  They are blindly taking pot shots right now. Get a dude to drive straight into the side of an oil tanker then I will believe the Houthis are serious about sinking tankers.

  2. 2 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

    at the surface level you have a supplier using unqualified or untrained personnel.   And QC people being either pressured or unavailable to sign off work.

    at a deeper level you have the supplier needing to resort to these tactics to meet schedule and cost.

    and why is that?  Because the top level product is inferior and must therefore compete on cost to make sales.

    and that's because the company chose to modify a 60 year old design instead of doing a clean sheet.

    and that's because meeting Wall Street growth expectations is the governing principle of management

    If you are in operations or engineering.  You know the enemy is the business group 

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


    Idk about doing it in public, but if I possessed that ability idk if I’d get much done for the foreseeable….ever. Now, honest question, does that make you gay? I mean, you sucked a dick. And, do you finish in your own mouth?

    Asking for a friend, of course.

    The cream filling is the best part right?   Errr, speaking for a friend of course 

  4. 2 hours ago, Blotto said:

    Glassdoor is about as accurate as those NIL reports telling us what athletes are getting. its garbage in/garbage out, and with the latest union contract (mid 23) who knows how accurate the data is.

    But it seems that most of what I am reading lays the blame on Boeing, rather than Spirit. This sounds plausible, but who knows: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spirit-aero-made-blowout-part-boeing-has-key-role-sources-2024-01-07/

     

     

     

     

    That Renton plant is definitely a union shop and they are around 60 dollars an hour there.

  5. 36 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Counterpoint.  All 737 max planes just spent months and months grounded.  

     

    30 minutes ago, royiv said:

    The entire Max fleet was grounded for 18 months. Seems like that would have been a good time to inspect the planes with a fine tooth comb.

    That is very true.  But if I had an electrical/electronics issue I wouldn't be checking my doors and windows for tightness

  6. 35 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Hypothetically (asking for a friend) - if you were flying into Seattle this summer would you exclude Alaska Air and favor Delta (both offer direct/non-stop flights), or would you assume that 5-6 months out Boeing & AA will get this shit figured out?

    Using wiki as a source:
    Alaska Air - 66 of 231 aircraft are 737 Maxx (all but 1 being Maxx 9's)
    Delta - 0 of 978 aircraft are 737 Maxx (though the do have 100 Maxx 10's on order)
    I would fly Southwest for the free luggage - but I don't really want to see Midway, DIA, Sky Harbor or  Harry Reid along the way

    It's the terrorist attack rule.  No place is safer than after a terrorist attack.  Those 737s are going to be inspected with a fine tooth comb.  Just gotta watch out for mushroom eating pilots

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  7. I've been to many oil and gas plants and when they are doing turnarounds.  They would assign random people to do closeout inspections.  Well, if you have never done a closeout inspection.  Then you don't know what you're looking for.  A lot of people are too prideful to ask what they are supposed to do for a closeout inspection.  So they just shine their flashlight in there and say yep. Looks good to me.  If you ever ask them what looks good.  That's when you're like hmmm......

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  8. 6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Yeah, door did not get banged up as much as I thought.

    Also, why not just have a door where it is designed to go? I mean is less emergency exits a good thing?

    I think it's a cost issue.  That plug might be 10k or so.  The emergency exit door with that slide is half a million.  And then the door you would have to keep maintaining it.

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  9. 19 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    This is nuts (no pun).  It looks like the assembly and installation of that door on multiple airplanes was a total shit show, with zero quality control.  There needs to be a stand down of whatever unit does this work with all other critical joints they worked on also reviewed.   I wouldn't let these airplanes fly again until that is done.

    I've been a second checker on many things.  How there isn't a torque value and an initial next to each one of those bolts is appalling.  And I'm sure one of the pre certs is to pressurize the plane to probably 5-10 psi.  This is just amazing 

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  10. 14 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    I will say, and seriously, no CR, Trump did snooker the fuck outta them on that Air Force One Contract.  They were so desperate to get in the Administration's good graces they signed a no overage contract with required delivery. 

    Narrator: "The project ran millions over estimate"

    Buncha dummies. 

    They all should be made to sign no overage contracts.  The government gets their shit pushed in by the defense contractors all the time

     

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  11. 1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I really don't want to hear it when Boeing gets all the largesse that it does from the DOD.  It's all dressed up as a procurement, but let's be real clear--the United States Government makes sure nothing too bad happens to Boeing.

    It's the only explanation I can come up with, but it's an absolutely shocking conclusion to reach.

    Boeing has a real corporate-culture problem right now that needs to be addressed ASAP.

    Yeah.  If a singular bolt was missing.  I would be like eh, shit happens.  An entire fucking door panel that establishes your pressure boundary.  That's a who the fuck was asleep at the wheel

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