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It's a federally regulated industry; it's inherently political.
Every industry is federally regulated.
FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
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#32Moving their HQ from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia (next to Washington DC) to prioritize lobbying and access sounds like it helped! https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096961418/boeing-moving-head... > Boeing is a major defense contractor, and the move will put executives close to Pentagon leaders. According to the book Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison the entire decline of Boein…
There is something to be said about having an airplane company choosing to site executives someplace specific at all, over, you know, using airplanes to get them places. It only takes 5 hours to get across the entire continental US.
Well, presumably the executives would like to see their families at least once a day. And the people in Washington you meet with prefer to do so in their offices.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a little funny to make this comment under an article about a contraversial decision made by a government agency. Believe it or not, government agencies tend to have some overlap with politics.
Trump himself is not involved in every decision of every government department.
The buck stops where, again?
Re: FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
#34This article seems a bit light on details, but a little more at the FAA website:
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-statement-boeing-airworthin...
https://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/designees_...
It is typical for aerospace companies to have in-house "FAA delegates" who function in the stead of direct FAA reviewers, and it looks like all that is going on here is the FAA is allowing Boeing to go back to using their own internal delegates (every other week!).
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#35The cynical part in me wants to say: "Because it worked so well the last time!" Did Boeing implement internal and process changes to justify this? That's an actual question, if they did this step would make sense. I want to trust Boeing to do the right thing when it comes to safety. As is, I still prefer Airbus when I get a choice.
> As is, I still prefer Airbus when I get a choice
Better pack a toxic fume respirator in your carry-on:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/delta-engines-airbus-toxic-fume...
Re: FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
#36Moving their HQ from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia (next to Washington DC) to prioritize lobbying and access sounds like it helped! https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096961418/boeing-moving-head... > Boeing is a major defense contractor, and the move will put executives close to Pentagon leaders. According to the book Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison the entire decline of Boein…
There is something to be said about having an airplane company choosing to site executives someplace specific at all, over, you know, using airplanes to get them places. It only takes 5 hours to get across the entire continental US.
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Re: FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
#37The cynical part in me wants to say: "Because it worked so well the last time!" Did Boeing implement internal and process changes to justify this? That's an actual question, if they did this step would make sense. I want to trust Boeing to do the right thing when it comes to safety. As is, I still prefer Airbus when I get a choice.
I'm still of the belief that whistleblower John Barnett was murdered by Boeing.
I have heard absolutely nothing about Boeing that suggests that anything meaningful has changed at all there.
Re: FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
#38This article seems a bit light on details, but a little more at the FAA website: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-statement-boeing-airworthin... https://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/designees_... It is typical for aerospace companies to have in-house "FAA delegates" who function in the stead of direct FAA reviewers, and it looks like all that is going on here is the FAA is allowing Boeing to go back to u…
Which defeats the purpose of adversarial review by a regulator. When your paycheck is signed by who you are regulating, you absolutely cannot force handling of what your employer doesn't want to handle. And seeing as FAA has had reciprocity in terms of certification with other countries (which if other countries were smart, they'd cease recognizing until the U.S. gets their shit straight), it's really an egregious abdication of responsibility on the FAA's part.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a federally regulated industry; it's inherently political.
Every industry is federally regulated.
Only in the sense that there are federal regulations that apply to all industries. But, for an extreme example, there is absolutely no federal regulation of marijuana dispensaries. Whose existence is entirely enabled by state laws, and federal reluctance to enforce federal law in a case where both state law and public opinion are against it.
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The hostility to opinions of out groups is a problem. It requires work to fight that tendency.
You mean like these out-group opinions that the joint terrorism task force has just been tasked to investigate?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-commo...
These groups and individuals are now being targeted by the federal government for exercising the most basic of their first amendment rights.