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Let's not forget yesterday Boeing announce a human life is worth $289,017 https://www.slashgear.com/boeing-reveals-100m-737-max-victim...
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Why necessitate? Businesses sometimes go under, that’s how the system works. The government ought not pick winners and losers.
I’m guessing that it’s considered a strategically important business to US defence? The US government would presumably be unwilling to allow all those teams of specialist engineers and technicians to be disbanded and all the facilities and assets to be sold off as would happen when a normal business fails.
Boeing and the US government recently killed the Canadian aviation industry by putting on 300% duties on our main manufacturer because of a government bailout it received. See: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/us-issues... As a result Bombardier, Canadian's only large aviation manufacturer, was sold to AirBus: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bombardie... The cause was a Canadian p…
How did Boeing make miracles in civilian aircraft? In short, the the civilian engineers were in charge. And it fell apart because the company, due to a merger, killed its engineering-first culture Uhm, this makes me think about the engineering-first of Google. I wonder if Google will end in the same path...
I think the pure business guys can't handle the unpredictability of engineering. there is a lot of tension at company when they push for "commitments" to deadlines. Often the response is "Honestly we don't know. We can start, see how things go and cut features as needed for the deadline."
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Given America-first and China-first attitudes, smaller countries will have to band together into trade blocs, either minimalist like the TPP, or maximalist like the EU, in order to get fair treatment. It’s the principle reason why Brexit is a disaster for the UK.
You mean walking away from and souring our relationship with the largest trading bloc in the world just as two major powers are gearing up to fight a massive economic fight for supremacy is a bad idea (not to mention all the others). I wish someone had put that on the side of the bus, maybe then my compatriots would have believed it. It's just a shame that "While the EU is not perfect and probably does need some refo…
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"The US still has 19 of the world's top 20 universities" Nope. "and 40x of the top 50." Nope. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin... But nice try.
The crux of GP’s comment stands despite quibbling on a few details. The US is the most powerful country on the planet and no one else is close.
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> This article repeats the claim that the MCAS software was faulty, but is there any evidence of coding-level errors? No, there isn't. The Verge (and IIRC other sources) have reported that the crashes were due to failures in the angle of attack (AoA) sensors. No program in the world is going to give you correct output with garbage input. Verge link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/2/18518176/boeing-737-max-cr...
No sensor failure should cause the plan to go into swan dive to destruction mode. The software that carries your tweets has to deal with exceptional situations including hardware failure so to must software that runs life critical hardware. Seems to me that if the proper response to faulty sensors was to disable MCAS perhaps it should have just done that for the pilot. Even without a second AoA sensors perhaps someth…
People keep saying this. But AF 447 was caused by this. Pilot furiously pulling up, plane rapidly approaching the ground... And the steps to fix it would have been to push down. None of this is as simple as you seem to think.
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You know the answer to that question. Comac, UAC, Airbus, Embraer and others all came from government efforts. Bombardier took Canadair off the government's hands to get started, so they might be the nearest there is to 'private free market enterprise'. Boeing live off the the defence contracts but they are arguably totally free market. We know this isn't true and pretend. The article talks about how the McDonnell Do…
Thank you for your wonderful reply. I'm of the feeling that electric planes may open up the market , though mindful it may be like the early days of plane making. Lots of small private companies that eventually merge over time into a handful of behemoths with the same governmental factors playing out.
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It’s worth noting that even though the 717 was first released in the late 90’s it isn’t a case of Boeing innovating since it’s just a rebadged MD-95 which was developed by McDonnell-Douglas
It's also worth noting that there were two 717s, the first was indeed part of the 720 & 707 family. (it was the 'commercial' designation of the C-135 when sold to france for use as a tanker)
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You mean walking away from and souring our relationship with the largest trading bloc in the world just as two major powers are gearing up to fight a massive economic fight for supremacy is a bad idea (not to mention all the others). I wish someone had put that on the side of the bus, maybe then my compatriots would have believed it. It's just a shame that "While the EU is not perfect and probably does need some refo…
To an extent- but in reality I would be shocked if the US wasn’t willing to offer a pretty full fat free trade agreement to a post hard-brexit UK.
Which means open access for their products into the UK market without out many of the consumer protections that the EU mandates.