Originally Posted by
babemagnet
Another week went by. Nothing happend! What are they doing all day?
Makes you wonder doesn’t it? What was it last count, 700 test flights and still questions? No updated estimate on submitting changes to the FAA, more questions from agencies outside the US. Last Boeing official statement was flying by 4th quarter if I recall correctly. Not a chance.
The bean counting pin heads and their MBA enablers are getting a long overdue and well deserved lesson in the importance of professional engineering, skilled end user (flight crews) critical input and quality control. The constant push of enhancing every possible smidgeon of “share holder value” might very well cripple the very same shareholders they supposedly held so near and dear. At the end of the day (or months/years) this dumpster fire will be extinguished with a dollar value of damages virtually impossible to fathom. Billions upon billions are being vaporized. The industry duopoly exists for many reasons but that duopoly metric is probably going to shift heavily in one direction now. Not good for the industry, innovation and competitiveness but Boeing is holding a big bag of $%#@ and the stench will follow this circus for years. Overall this could end up, and might already be, the biggest disaster in aircraft manufacturing we’ll have ever seen in our lifetimes.
This is a five alarm fire and they’re still dispatching units. The blaze rages on.