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That's really not accurate. Yes, that is a thing that also happened, but that's not why Spirit Aerosystems existed, which is what I'm talking about. It's becau
by CPLX 11mo ago
That's really not accurate. Yes, that is a thing that also happened, but that's not why Spirit Aerosystems existed, which is what I'm talking about.
It's because Wall Street demands returns on capital in a way that's fundamentally incompatible with hardcore high tech manufacturing.
- lazide 11mo agoAirbus does the same thing right now - [https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/commercial-aircraft/the-life-cycle-of-an-aircraft/production https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/commercial-aircr...]. Airbus is currently less of a problem because they more recently had huge issues/lost their minds, so they’re more on top of it right now. But it wasn’t that long ago they were literally faking black box data to cover their ass when their one of their new line of aircraft crashed at an airshow.. I don’t think Boeing ever went to that extent, but I guess we’d never know unless they did it particularly badly. Any sufficiently large/important organization tends to do stuff like this unless it is actively stopped. A generation or so is usually enough for people to forget important lessons.