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Interesting piece about Boeing in the WSJ yesterday, which should be accessible without a subscription. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-boe...hare_permalink
The money:
Making and mating aluminum fuselage sections is an established, perhaps obsolescing, discipline. Boeing has since become a more complicated company. Its decision 20 years ago to spin off its 737 fuselage plant, now said to reek of controversy, was actually a sensible way to focus management and shareholders on this narrow art.
In fact, no fatal accidents have stemmed from the 737 factory’s well-aired travails. Two fatal 737 MAX crashes are down to Boeing’s software design. A 1978 factory mistake did cause the catastrophic failure of a Japan Airlines 747 in 1985, but that was during the period critics now paint as Boeing’s golden age.
The romantic critique overlooks that a modern airplane is an amalgamation of complex systems impossible for one company to design and build. Indeed, the decentralized interaction of hundreds of organizations is what makes air travel so safe and cheap. It allows millions of ordinary humans to supply us this service via in-built learning and redundancies without having to be superhuman or transcend the sausage-factory realities of all human endeavors.
In manufacturing, you get the behavior you reward. Boeing needs to get back to rewarding manufacturing teams that are quick and faultless, rather than merely quick.
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Boeing needs to get back to making airplanes, and airlines need to get back to flying airplanes. What’s going on today in the industry is anything but.
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The aviation world is small. Sometimes too small. Learned today that the CA in that DC4 crash was the brother of a best friends coworker. Sounds unrelated until you stop and think. It’s a small business.
Working diligently to enlarge my group size.
Short interview with a 94 year old bush-pilot with over 28k hours .....
The path of least resistance will seldom get you where you need to be.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
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