Mike Crawford warned about software engineering to the Boeing CEO and everyone else they just ignored Mike. Mike Crawford was a software engineer and software contractor who wrote an essay on airline software engineering and safety checks as part of quality control. Mike is now dead, by his own hand, got a critical illness that could not be treated or afford to be treated.
Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
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Re: Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
#552This outcome reminds me of an internal memo from my current company, written after a visit to Boeing and Amazon for lessons on digital transformation. An interesting insight was drawn stating that a sharp contract between the two companies was everyone at Boeing loved their CEO and talked about how great he was, while most at Amazon showed various degrees of fear and/or dissent towards Bezos.
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I fly Frontier very regularly by quality choice and not by price. The fares are great, but the only other people flying the routes are United (awful awful) and Southwest (great but also pricey). More generally, I am not impressed by any U.S. major, discounting Southwest if they are considered. United, AA, and Delta (least) are pretty abysmal in their quality. It's probably important to be specific when I say "quality…
> United (awful awful) What's so awful about United?
Everything!! Like everything you can imagine about a flying experience compared to its competitors. Seat space, employee attitude, noise, snacks...
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Tall person here. Flights longer than 90 minutes really, really suck unless I've saved up enough miles to upgrade my seat something with more leg room.
It’s an interesting topic. Should everyone be able to travel for the same price or should different people pay different prices for whatever reason. Eg if someone is very over weight and can’t fit in a single economy seat, should the person get 2 seats for the price of 1 or should the person have to pay for 2 seats?
The latter problem is solved: If you're too wide to fit into one seat you do need to buy two seats.
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Boeing will eventually have to build a clean sheet replacement for the 737 in response to airline demands for greater fuel efficiency. The long term trend is toward higher fuel prices, especially once some countries start taxing carbon emissions from commercial aviation. But it could be another 20 years until that "797" enters service.
They announced it back in 2014 at least, aiming for 2030: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-ceo-737/boeing-pla...
That's waaaay too late. They can't just not have a plane to sell in the small plane segment (which does the most sales volume) for the entire next decade!
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#556So, realistically, what will happen? Not what _should_ happen, but what will actually happen? 1) the current board will continue 2) European (and other) regulators will not be impressed 3) Boeing sales vs. Airbus will not return to their previous levels for years, if ever; a goodly percentage of international travel will be locked up for Airbus 4) Boeing will also face more competition from SpaceX (and perhaps others…
I think they're going to become more dependent on defense business, which is unlikely to go anywhere.
That's even less reassuring to me. I don't want North America's defence to rest on some American version of the Reichsfeuerzeug [], designed by an incompetent but politically connected firm.
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#557You see all seeing the wrong signs, look more closely. Open your Eyes
https://youtu.be/02VX-wmepAA
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#558Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s an interesting topic. Should everyone be able to travel for the same price or should different people pay different prices for whatever reason. Eg if someone is very over weight and can’t fit in a single economy seat, should the person get 2 seats for the price of 1 or should the person have to pay for 2 seats?
The latter problem is solved: If you're too wide to fit into one seat you do need to buy two seats.
Depends on the country. In Canada for example the second seat comes free.
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#559Boeing already has bases off-world and is getting ready for Open Eyes you have all been duped into thinking they are failing in the White World (modern society)
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#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know, sounds too simple to be true. But it is: Boeing Emergency Airworthiness Directive "Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT. Manual stabilizer trim can be used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are mov…
The problem with this standpoint is that procedural fixes are the least preferable way of managing a hazardous condition. Engineering the hazard away is almost always the better option with procedural mitigation’s being a last resort. If engineering fixes were available and unused its indicative of poor safety engineering practices
> The problem with this standpoint is that procedural fixes are the least preferable way of managing a hazardous condition.
The way to make things safe is to address ALL points in the zipper that led to the accident. That includes the pilot error aspects.