tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post9192502700436610360..comments2024-03-29T09:14:34.373-04:00Comments on Borepatch: I'm not going to fly on a Boeing 737 MAXBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-20674473745801800892020-01-13T14:07:41.547-05:002020-01-13T14:07:41.547-05:00Most of the issues can be linked to Boeing being b...Most of the issues can be linked to Boeing being blackmailed by 2nd and 3rd world countries.<br /><br />"How?" you may ask. <br /><br />Well, this is how. Most nations (practically everyone except the USA) don't have private airlines, they have state-owned airlines. And in order to sell 737-MAX to all these state-owned lines, the states said "X part of plane MUST be made here, in this 2nd or 3rd world country, that can't make planes normally, even small ones."<br /><br />That right there has doomed most of the later gen Boeing product. Why did Boeing use Indian coders (who mostly didn't code)? Because India said they had to in order to sell their planes.<br /><br />Simple as that. Rather than the company saying 'Screw You, just go buy Airbus and find out how screwed you are (since, well, Airbuses have lots of problems just as bad as the MAX but aren't written about. Remember the rash of Airbus crashes due to their tails falling off, or the rash of Airbus crashes from their flight-computers taking over and crashing the planes (sometimes while the aircrew is frantically trying to take manual control?))<br /><br />Yeah. Boeing screwed up. Yes, blame the administration, but don't forget that Airbus, or the Russian airliner companies, or India's homegrown airliners, or Red China's homebuilt aircraft, all tend to have a much higher ratio of bad-things-happening in comparison to even Boeing's latest mess-up.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-87078835512391068092020-01-13T12:03:50.782-05:002020-01-13T12:03:50.782-05:00They were doomed once they moved the corporate off...They were doomed once they moved the corporate offices to Chicago away from the factory.Kinnisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011920200037452889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-68792284996249355022020-01-13T11:19:21.708-05:002020-01-13T11:19:21.708-05:00Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy seems to b...<a href="https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html" rel="nofollow">Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy</a> seems to be well applied to Boeing.juvathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09096708575138552532noreply@blogger.com