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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/07/magazine/07airbus... "Beware of propeller" seems like a strange name for a ship :)
The real name is actually painted at the top. It's BBC Volga [1]. Currently in the Bahamas. 1: https://www.vesselfinder.com/de/vessels/BBC-VOLGA-IMO-943632...
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AA are just going to buy whatever deal is the best on offer in order to help their market competitiveness i.e. ticket prices.
That, and I also heard from an Airbus engineer friend, that airlines try to diversify their planes so that in case a specific plane model is grounded by the FAA (or equivalent) the impact is less severe.
Southwest only flies 737s. In fact, they were so fussy about aircraft that Boeing had to _make_ them take an autopilot on the 737-700s that they bought.
Looking at those pictures I wonder how assembly, from unloading cargo to final testing, could be fully automated. I came to think that until we automate automation it will be quite hard. Humans with assist of tools are flexible enough - especially on this scale.
The question is how much of it should be automated that isn't already. It's not like they're building 737s and A321s for everyone - at some point, human labor just makes better business sense, though I admit I have no idea where those lines are - I don't have the factory experience to tell you. It's also likely they'd pretty significantly redesign a lot of the parts if they were going for more automation - a lot of a…
> Almost a third of American factory workers now hold four-year college degrees, a trend that reflects the increasingly cerebral nature of the work. Wow.
Or it reflects the low actual utility of college degrees.
"American workers expect things to go wrong and then they fix it" I found this this interesting, also that it was said by a 25 year old manager.
How much does cautiousness result in increased productivity versus having the ability to have reactive responses to things going wrong? I've found this behaviour in other orgs, and often it was used an excuse not to train people to have the capability to remediate, but only to do what they're trained to do.
Also, as far as the age goes -- that's not that unusual for a line manager in manufacturing. Assuming they started working at ~22, 3 years in one plant can definitely make you a line manager.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/07/magazine/07airbus... "Beware of propeller" seems like a strange name for a ship :)
I'm disappointed American Airlines don't buy all Boeing planes, especially given their name. Although Airbus planes do have some American parts on them, they're mostly European. Considering they got USD$15 Billion in bailout money from the US Government, and just how good Boeing planes are at a very similar price point, supporting manufacturing in their country of origin seems like the right thing to do.
If you want to know how bad things get when you limit free trade, google Smoot-Hawley.
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Pretty sure that report was for political reasons as well.
It was an independent report that compared Boeing and Airbus, so I have my doubts.
The vivid color contrasts in these photos make them visually stunning, but do they serve any functional purpose?
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Or it reflects the low actual utility of college degrees.
It's probably a bit of both, but much more the former. Factories have become very automated: the stuff that doesn't need a degree is now being done by robots.
Somehow college dropouts built the PC industry, and the internet economy, and we still worship a diploma that is almost only ever used as a point of entry to the job market, then discarded immediately.