“Yes dear, I’ll be back in 8 to 10 days…. 11 at the most”

Oops!

Hey Boeing…. It’s not a good look!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy47w9yndpo

It’s pretty incredible how Boeing have gotten to this point. It’s going to take a long time to turn the company around and the PR damage at this stage must be huge.

Musk must be loving it! Space X rescuing the stranded boeing crew members…

It’s going to take a long time to turn the company around and the PR damage at this stage must be huge.

It’ll take a complete purge of the entire management team, but who do you replace them with? The level of complacency that’s been allowed to develop is staggering, it’s difficult to see how they can come back to somewhere like they were a decade or so ago, before they bought McDonnell-Douglas, which is when the rot set in – too many management positions with too little knowledge of actually designing and building aircraft.

Space Karen to the rescue*

*in a scheduled 8 months, that is.

I don’t think ‘space karen’ ‘coming to the rescue’ is anything to be ‘proud’ of for any concerned.

Husk will be loving it though…

There’s a really interesting episode of ‘Last Week Tonight’ on the merger between Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas, and the culture shift that ensued.

@yorksmatt, also covered by Grace Blakely in her recent book ‘Vulture Capitalism’.

Not keen on flying anyway, I felt far better on a 25yo 737 recently than an obviously far newer Max in May.

NASA have had their issues in the past. How about Apollo 13? They had no option but to re-enter with a potentially damaged heat shield, but does it make sense attempting a manned trip back in a faulty craft if you don’t have to?

It’s a long time to be stuck in a small space with a few people for company and your bosses watching your every move. I think I’d go insane.

Ah but think of the overtime!

Not keen on flying anyway, I felt far better on a 25yo 737 recently than an obviously far newer Max in May.

And with good reason – read the article I’ve attached.

There’s one man and his accomplices who’s been responsible for the destruction of both Boeing and GE; Jack Welch. His mantra is, more or less, ‘cut costs at all cost’. The costs to safety, in a safety-critical industry, are irrelevant as far as people like him are concerned.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/26/jack-welch-screwed-up-ge-boeing-and-with-them-much-us-climate-action/

How about Apollo 13?

Forget about Apollo 13, think more about Columbia

The thing about all this that I’m really struggling to comprehend, is the car parking overstay fine – which will truly be out of this world!

I’ve endured a buy-out where the successful larger Co bought the smaller one… then the management of the smaller one took over… amd severely wrecked the previously good one (smaller Companies- bit still multi-billion-a-year turnover size).   For the high quality engineering staff, it’s soul destroying to see incompetent fly by night journeymen (and occasionally women) ‘managers’ take huge sacks of £££ for their total incompetence.