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Boeing has been late on almost all their projects. The Australia tanker is behind by 2 years, the Japanese shipment is behind by 3 years and counting. Its sad
by spoiledtechie 16y ago
Boeing has been late on almost all their projects. The Australia tanker is behind by 2 years, the Japanese shipment is behind by 3 years and counting.
Its sad to see a company that is politically corrupt still win contracts by the U.S. Government even though it delivers years behind schedule.
- sanj 16y agoUnlike software, which is always on schedule.
- calloc 16y agoNot if you are part of the highway bandits!
- bediger 16y agoThe US Government (Department of Defense and "Intelligence Community") doesn't have a lot of choice. They've let the already incestuous aerospace industry contract to about 4 main companies, and those 4 don't compete with Boeing in the passenger aircraft space. Boeing probably hasn't had a "farm team" of design engineers for 20 or 25 years, now. Designing a new passenger jet isn't something that comes around more than once in a lifetime.
- quanticle 16y agoTo be honest, though, its not like any of the other aerospace companies are any better. Airbus, for example, experienced huge delays in getting the A380 built, simply because its engineers were using two different versions of the same CAD tool (http://www.cadalyst.com/management/what-grounded-airbus-a380-5955 http://www.cadalyst.com/management/what-grounded-airbus-a380...).
- crs 16y agoPolitically Corrupt? That is a fairly large blanket statement your throwing out there.