MORE AIRCRAFT WOES FOR BOEING
Regular readers here know my attitude toward flying: I do not do it, and won't do it, ever again. When I returned from Oxford to America in 1987, that was my last flight on an airplane. I simply will not fly, anywhere, ever. Period. My reasons for that are personal, but you may number terrible vertigo among them, and a curmudgeonly insistence in the teeth of clear statistical evidence to the contrary that flying is always, somehow, a crap shoot, a roll of the probability dice, that I simply don't want to take. you can add to that those grim pictures of American Flight 191, or Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182, both from the late 1970s, and that more or less settles the issue for me.
But even i will admit that those grim reminders from history were not so much faults of the equipment itself, or of design flaws, but of human maintenance or piloting errors.
Not so with the recent problems that seem to be afflicting American manufacturer Boeing's commercial airliners. We've see an spate of problems, from problems in the computerized automatic pilots pitching noses up or down too much, altimeter problems, doors or windows falling off in mid flight, tires coming off on takeoff or landing and bouncing down the runway, Dutch rolls, and more recently, reports of "counterfeit Chinese titanium" that somehow made its way not only into Being aircraft, but Airbus aircraft as well.
Well, now you can add cracked cockpit windshields to the list, according to this story shared by V.T.:
The opening lines in this one say it all:
Here we go again.
While flying from Heathrow to San Francisco, a Virgin Atlantic Boeing jet’s windshield cracked at 40,000 feet.
Photographs show that a central window pane is shattered with cracks in several areas, but investigators have been unable to determine what caused the damage.
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Experts have said that the plane’s altitude meant it could not have hit a bird and no immediate other course have been highlighted but temperatures outside the aircraft were -50 degrees Celsius.
Now anyone who has flown from the United Kingdom to the United States will know that route. You do fly high, and temperatures are going to be very cold outside the aircraft. And you're flying much too high for the windscreen to be hit by any bird. And aircraft have been making that journey for decades without cracked windshields. But in the wake of all the other problems Boeing seems to be suffering, we can probably write this incident off to the same cause: cultural agenda-driven incompetence, behind which one may also suspect lies some good old-fashioned industrial espionage and sabotage.
The article goes on to mention the following incident:
Earlier this month, a passenger jet with 163 passengers and nine crew members barely cleared the runway by ten feet due to a software glitch that caused it to take off with insufficient power.
The TUI Boeing 737-800, departing from Bristol Airport’s 1.2-mile runway 9 to Gran Canaria on March 4, had difficulty gaining enough lift during takeoff.
The 15-year-old jet eventually managed to get airborne but passed over the nearby A38 road at less than 100 feet before making its way to the sunny island.
Back in the 1970s, there were many crashes of the emerging jumbo-jets that seemed to involve a flaw in the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10, and accordingly, even when I did fly, I would always make certain that the flight was not on a DC-10. In fact, on my final flight from the United Kingdom back to the States, I had been booked on a DC-10, and actually had to ring up the travel agency ande have them book another flight - on a Boeing! - that would avoid any DC-10s. Well, as you might have guessed, with all the problems Boeing seems to be having lately, customers are now actually voicing concerns, if not abandoning Boeing aircraft altogether (presumably for Airbus):
Years ago, when I was teaching college, I warned my students that the increasing "enstupidation" of the American "edgykayshunal" establishment would lead to a collapse of all standards in the country, and we could become a third world junkyard of incompetence as elevators and airplanes would start literally falling from the sky. I turned out to be right, and here we are.
So what is to be done? Here's my dream scenario: the government in the form of Congress should hold public hearings, and the lamestream propotainment media should run special broadcasts of those hearings, and invite Boeing executive and manager after Boeing executive and manager to explain what steps they're taking to end this spate of nonsense and restore quality and excellence to the company. Meanwhile, the FAA should threaten to pull all licenses of all Boeing aircraft, if only to convince Boeing that the government is serious in a sort iof "fix the problem or go out of business" sort of way. In the meantime, the government should fast track any start-up commercial aircraft manufacturer that demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that it has not been taken over nor will it subscribe to "diversity, equity, and inclusion", but rather, will hire engineers that can actually do math and design things without CAD programs. (That will be a tall order).
But wait, that's just my fantasy on the government side of the hearings. I have a fantasy of what those subpoenaed Boeing executives and managers should say in response to Congressional probing: they should point out, repeatedly and ad nauseam, that unsafe aircraft are what you, the government and public, get when you press programs of cultural "Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity" (D.I.E.) over actual demonstrated competence and excellence. They should come into those hearings, armed for bear, and name the names of the Congressmen and senators who have funded and enabled the edgyhayshunal nonsense behind it, and they should point out that there are such things as genuinely stupid and incompetent people, and that they are not entitled to design aircraft, or service, or maintain them simply because of their obesity, purple hair, or the bone in the septum of their nose or the tattoos plastered on their faces.
In short, Do you want to fix Boeing? I mean, really fix it? Then you've got to fix education. And you can start by abolishing the lack of competence and discipline that came with teacher certification and the whole edubabble edifice that comes with it. There was a time that teachers were hired to teach things like mathematics, literature, history, biology, physics, not because they had a "teacher's certificate" in some vacuous socialization program called education, pedagogy, methodology and all the other nonsense that teachers must sit through to get that certificate, but solely and simply because they were competent in actual subjects. Restore that, and you will restore Boeing, and perhaps a host of other forgotten names once associated with quality. Traditional education never had need of certification, or teachers' unions, or all the rot American "education" has become. After that, you can go to work on the related "disciplines"...
Boeing's woes are just the symptoms of a much deeper disease, and that disease is cultural and spiritual, and therefore, is concentrated in the institutions that bear and transmit culture: the academy, universities, and schools (and yes, the churches, but that's another subject for another day).
See you on the flip side...
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I can imagine that perhaps this is a planned demolition.
McDonnell Douglas was a joke. The “engineers ” they handed engineer lapel pins to found when unemployed that they weren’t actually engineers.
The “reemployment counselors ” hired by that corpseration had a hard time explaining that to the formerly happy dudes.Pretty funny, frankly.
The book “Stiffed: The Betrayal of The American Man” records the history of how the govt. building facility was dismantled, the one that always came in on time and on budget, due to the work ethics of the multiracial employee builders, and shipped it all the McDonnell Douglas, a scam company that just ripped off millions and set us up to have it all shipped abroad.
Seriously suprised they ruled out birds immediately. The insanity of the navy’s attempts to remove the gulls of Midway Islands makes all this immediately comical to me.
But it also reminds e of a story read once of an Alaskan “out in the sticks ruffing it” couple. The guy was driving those long distances to get home from a winter supply trip, and a huge moose buck hit his windshield. Bye bye windshield at forty below. Was a rough ride the rest of the way.
but 40,000 feet up sound even crazier
Got a meme that says: At Boeing, when one door closes, another opens.
A deductive analysis of D.I.E.:
1. The “filioque” promotes equal standing, between father and son, and since former is elder to the latter, it upsets natural balance.
2. The “diversity” implies a critique, against the elder, accused of being to rigid and stagnant, which, in turn, demands modernisation by youth.
3. The “inclusion” implies a critique, against the youth, for being disfranchised and powerless, which, in turn, implies, dethronement of elder.
4. The “equity” implies balancing diversity and inclusion, into a synthesis, which implies, that elder and youth are to be given equal say.
5. The “filioque” is sold, as a miniscule phrase addition, whereas, it is a subtle language manipulation, to cause divide and conquer.
6. A subtle change, in the abstract pantheon, causes a precedent, that is used, to manipulate a population, into accepting imperial rule.
7. This brainwashing technique weakens the resistance, slackens the resolve, and opens the gates, for hostile foreign groups to invade.
8. The antidote is, to explain Yahweh as reason, and Elohim as logic, which breaks the filioque spell, and emasculates the imperial Vatican.
US state sued over Ten Commandments law:
https://www.rt.com/news/600017-louisians-ten-commandments-law/
US state orders all schools to teach the Bible:
https://www.rt.com/news/600150-us-oklahoma-schools-bible/
BTW, Odin’s two brothers, Will and Woe (Elohim and Yahweh), are a smoking gun, assuming, that fallen Samaria rose in Crimea, which implies, that Team Christ is an appendix, to a greater Scythian narrative.
Of course, the Vatican doesn’t want it to be known, that so-called heathens are – literally – snot out of Abram’s nose, which would upset the papal plot, for world dominion, to what end, the pontiff is now crusading in the Ukraine.
The Vatican needs dominion over Crimea, to contain the Scythian narrative, and prevent it from spreading, because Scythian martial art spawned Ashtanga Yoga and Buddhism, which, by comparison, will reinvigorate the western warrior tradition.
Today, Scandinavian toast (skál) is still a Scythian skull cup, the Holy Grail.
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While Boeing certainly has their problems the heated windshields are not one of them. PPG aerospace makes most windscreens for high performance aircraft. The windscreens are heated to prevent bird penetration at high speeds. There are tipacally 3 layers of glass in an aircraft windscreen and the electrical circuits are sandwiched between the middle and inner layer and that creates the flexibility for bird proofing and defogging of all the glass.
I had several short circuits of wind screens over a career of jet flying. It sounds like a shotgun going off on the flight deck but there is no danger of structural glass failure. Only a visibility problem.
Boeing’s problems are the same Ford faced back in the 50’s and 60’s. Ford made the decision after WWII to bring in efficiency experts (McNamara and the Whiz Kids) to reform the company. The car guys like Iacocca were no longer exercising operational control of the company. Decisions were made on the cost of a gallon of paint not the color. If lime green was cheaper than fire engine red, the cars on the production line were painted lime green.
Boeing’s corporate decision makers are now financial wonks, not aviation engineers. It’s more important to Boeing to arrange financing for a new plane than to actually design one. The people at Boeing today are no longer the people who stop whatever they’re doing and look up at the sky when an airplane passes over. David Calhoun, Boeing’s current CEO, is a product of The Blackstone Group with no backround in aviation. That’s the problem with Boeing; it’s an aviation company with no aviation expertise.
just think about that due to whatever kind of event they need the planes on the ground. Then having this problem will convince many if not all flyers to accept this. We are all electric creatures, floating in the electric sea of this universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEehEBAiLnE&t=76s
That’s why I love this fetish for Tech, it fails. Human’s cannot fail, except that behind all this tech are… nothing but humans. Sooo, it’s all going to fail, anyway. Let me count the ways… But, but, AI will save us… See above.
A long time ago my buddies and I were on an 8 hour flight from Christchurch, NZ to McMurdo Base in Antarctica. After landng and getting our gear off the plane, several of us noticed the pilots and maintenance guys inspecting the aircraft wings of the Hercules C130 we fly aboard. We overheard one of them say, “Yeah, and here’s another long crack. Do you think we ought to have these re-welded again?”
Let us use the name that does not want to be mentioned Sabotage we have a death bird known as the Boeing 737 Max the space equivalent known as Starliner that has marooned two astronauts on the ISS. Then you have the Boeing X-37 Mini Shuttle, which Boeing should have built for NASA a man and cargo version like Dreamchaser instead of the White Elephant Apollo update junk it delivered. I call for the executives of Boeing to be forced to commit Seppuku in public for deliberately destroying the good name of Boeing McDonald Dunglas executives should join them since they screwed the good name of that company as well..
For me the airline industry used to epitomize the top level of manufacturing sector; the Le Creme de la Creme. Now, that would be most likely be in computer chips arena. Either way, the USSA is fret with a leadership focused on money; not business acumen, nor country, nor certainly any sense of morality. Bottom feeders, par excellence.
Like an Asimov’s crop of engineers, with absolutely no equivalence of what their predecessors had to know. No inst1tutional history, let alone knowledge of what it takes to be on top of your game. Welcome to the land where ignorance is not only taught, but also, must be certified. After all; you wouldn’t want any iota of competence, entering your contaminated food chains of verifiable idiocy.
At the time, I had thought this would be a target of countries like China.
Looks that that box was bought and checked-off from our superbly–lined, pocket-politicians. The best democracy Chinese yaun can buy.
Then you could add in industrial espionage and sabotage; by numerous players – including domestic varieties. Ripe for the taking. Brought to you by too many sponsor to list out, including the those well known, top-of-the-line traitors: MEDIA.
The perfect metaphor is one where Boeing enters to space manufacturing arena.
Boeing definitely fits in perfectly: space cadets personified.
Sadly. Boeing once helped define the Space Race; now it’s an emblem of calamity; as it bids to compete with Space X. A Space Race to find and control the Moon’s resources, like water. And, the obvious high-ground, of all Earth’s militaries.
IN FOR A DIME,IN FOR A DOLLAR, an old phrase about cascading, unstoppable consequences comes to mind as another example of what Joseph termed, “the culture of corruption dishonesty, deceit, and outright lying leading to Incompetence” now threatens the lives of two astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. https://www.businesstoday.in/world/story/nasa-and-boeing-knew-about-starliner-leak-before-launch-sunita-williams-now-trapped-in-space-report-434921-2024-06-27. If this emergency persists, I’m wondering if the Breakaway Civilization will deploy one of its $21-trillion craft to save them?
George Carlin–
“…everyone wonders why 17 other countries graduate more scientists than we do. “EDUCATION”. Politicians know that word – they USE it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things: the flag, the Bible, and children! ‘No child left behind'”no child left behind”.. Oh really? Well, it wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start! Head start…left behind? Someone’s losing… ground here!”
Soooo I just heard booieg ‘won’ the contract ta build the ‘ship’ 🚀. ta Mars ? …. something tells me good ole made in the USA 🇺🇸 🫣…. well ‘ this space race’ WE might finish 2nd this time , folks 😬or maybe well 🤔 3rd 🥉 or close 4th 🫢 OR tied for 5 th 🫨 6 th or hell 7 th ? 🥵 Or ah umm 🤨 damn do they STILL give out. ‘ participation trophies 🏆’ ? No worries folks we’s going 🚀 R there any Nazis lying ‘ round. ya know 4 ‘ hire’ 🧐
A traditional guild is: a master training apprentices, into becoming skilled workers, who, in turn, become masters of a trade, which is a closed loop.
Jewish chutzpah is, to claim kingship in Europe, based on six million whatever, believing, that Jews can be, whatever they want to be, based on Vatican say-so.
Vatican is a parasite, that produces sectarian Pinocchios, with zero grasp of reality, by promoting filioque, which is diversity, inclusion and equity.
Scythian Odin is craft of statehood, balancing his two brothers, Elohim and Yahweh, which is logic and reason, as founding principle.
Mad King George & Co:
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Here a link to an article in Dutch mainstream media that talks about another Boeing (a KLM 747) that returned to Osaka because of a cracked cockpit windshield on the 16th of June – it is all happening around the same time – Odd: https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/cockpitraam-deugt-niet-klm-cancelt-vlucht-naar-schiphol-toestel-keert-terug-naar-tokio~a2a2aaf7/