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My comment on Boeing not doing anything right is based upon: - Multiple failures of Starliner - 737 MAX - 787 - USAF Replacement Tanker Do you have any fac
by gsibble 4y ago
My comment on Boeing not doing anything right is based upon:
- Multiple failures of Starliner
- 737 MAX
- 787
- USAF Replacement Tanker
Do you have any fact based comments that they are an engineering powerhouse? And don't quote me projects older than 10 years.
- anaganisk 4y agoTheir USAF inventory?
- hef19898 4y ago787, F/A-18, 777, 747-8 freighter? The T-7A? Just from top of my head.
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago>> And don't quote me projects older than 10 years. Pretty sure you ignored that part. Yes, Boeing used to do great engineering. gsibble didn't deny that. The issue is the last decade or so.
- hef19898 4y agoBy limiting it to a decade, and a lot of the latest versions of the programs I mentiones are actually quite recent developments, just shows how ignorant OP is when it comes to aerospace. 30 years ago is, in aerospace, basically yesterday. That things on the civilian side sped up is largely due to the 787. At considering 747-8 just another 747, no idea where to start... That as stupid as calling the MAX just another 737, we all agree I hope that this is not the case.
- gsibble 4y agoYou're still not giving me any examples of anything they've done successfully in the last decade while I gave plenty of examples of things they've fucked up.
- hef19898 4y agoI gave you plenty of recent examples where Boeing did a decent job, excluding MAX of course. I also tried to explain that your limit of ten years doesn't make any sense in aerospace where cycles are more like 30 years. But hey, you wanna hate Boeing go and hate Boeing, plenty of reasons for it if you search for them. Being uncapable as an aerospace company is none of them so, trying to fram eit like that is just showing a certain level of ignorance about the whole industry.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoJust off the top of my head: F/A-18 was designed by McDonnel Douglas in the 1970s (Boeing has never designed their own successful fighter jet. Not once..) The 777 is from the early 90s, close to 30 years ago. The 747-8 Freighter is highly derivative of the 747-8, a 20 year old program, which is itself derivative of an airframe who's design began in the 1960s. The 787 is your best counter example, that program started not quite 20 years ago and hasn't been a complete disaster. The T-7 is a Saab jet; Boeing's contribution is being an American manufacturer so the jet could win the contract.
- gsibble 4y agoExactly. Boeing used to build great stuff until the McDonnel Douglas merger. Now the money people run the show and engineering takes a back seat. Love how no one has tried to refute me. Just downvotes.
- hef19898 4y agoThe latest iterations of the F/A-18 all happened after the merger. The 777-X is quite recent as is the 787. Aerspace standards mean 30 years is basically yesterday. Oh, you also have the F-15, in it latest iteration a Boeing jet. Hell, Boeing has its issues and problems but not realizing what an imoressive aerospace company it is while ignoring all the issues SpaceX has, and comopletely ignoring all non-rocket programs Boeing has going, is borderline ignorant.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> F-15, in it latest iteration a Boeing jet. Just another derivative. The F-15 was McDonnell Douglas. Boeing has never designed their own fighter jet, and not for want of trying.
- hef19898 4y agoI already asked someone else, but how much aerospace exerience do you have? Honest question.