#aircraft

Charges for personal use of company aircraft as reported in the PSX Proxy Statements:

2026: $271k
2025: $238K
2024: $198k
2023: $266k
2022: $116k

Garland, for comparison:
2021: $176k
2019: $73k

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“Our belief [is] that the industrial base can only handle going fast on one programme at this time, and the presidential priority [is] to go all-in on F-47 and get that programme right while maintaining the option for F/A-XX in the future,” the source said.

After years of hollowing and forcing out at Boeing's experienced Engineers chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Steve Parker, lied (is anyone surprised) saying Boeing was capable of supporting both F-47 and F/A-XX fighter efforts simultaneously.

US lawmakers approve 84% funding cut to US Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter.
Ending a major point of uncertainty for the US aerospace industry, elected lawmakers in Washington say they will support a Trump Administration plan to provide only minimal funding to the US Navy’s (USN’s) sixth-generation fighter programme.

Known officially as the Next Generation Fighter and colloquially as the F/A-XX, the aircraft development programme intends to deliver a carrier-based fighter to succeed the navy’s large fleet of Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G electronic attack jets.

However, in what lawmakers describe as the final version of the annual defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress appears poised to enact significant funding cuts to the F/A-XX programme, as requested by the Trump Administration.

The administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget request to Congress was decidedly cool toward the naval fighter, including only $74 million for F/A-XX development – 84% less than the $453 million approved for the programme in FY2025.

On 10 December, the US House of Representatives voted to pass the 2026 NDAA with only $74 million directed toward the Next Generation Fighter programme. The Senate already passed its own version of the legislation in October containing similar cuts.

The White House and Pentagon say they want to pool resources behind the US Air Force’s F-47 development effort, while keeping the US Navy’s sixth-generation F/A-XX programme on life support

A Pentagon official who spoke to FlightGlobal in June on condition of anonymity said the administration has opted to maximise resources going to the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) land-based sixth-generation fighter and to effectively keep the navy’s F/A-XX on life support.

“We did make a strategic decision to go all-in on F-47,” the defense official said of the FY2026 budget request.

Boeing was selected as the winner of the USAF’s Next Generation Air Dominance competition in March, with the company’s design designated F-47.

That programme is set to receive more than $2.5 billion in development funding in FY2026, under the latest (and allegedly final) draft of the NDAA. An additional $400 million was allocated to the F-47 development effort under a one-time budget reconciliation spending package passed in July.

Boeing and Northrop Grumman are the presumptive finalists for the Next Generation Fighter programme, more commonly known as F/A-XX

The Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives says the FY2026 NDAA includes “full funding” for both the F-47 and F/A-XX, indicating the bill will go along with the administration’s requests.

What that means for the future of the sixth-generation naval fighter is unclear.

The defense official who spoke to FlightGlobal earlier this year said the goal was to provide enough financial support for the navy to make source selection for the Next Generation Fighter, but not necessarily advance into production.

“Our belief [is] that the industrial base can only handle going fast on one programme at this time, and the presidential priority [is] to go all-in on F-47 and get that programme right while maintaining the option for F/A-XX in the future,” the source said.

Industry officials, including the chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Steve Parker, have said they are capable of supporting both fighter efforts simultaneously.

The navy has not announced its choice of a final supplier for the still-unnamed F/A-XX, although Boeing and Northrop Grumman are presumptive finalists after Lockheed Martin was eliminated early in 2025.

For much of the summer and autumn, it seemed likely Congress would override the White House and provide more robust levels of funding to the F/A-XX programme.

That appears to be the case for the air force’s Boeing E-7A Wedgetail programme, which the White House and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth are seeking to end before moving into full procurement. The FY2026 NDAA would prevent that, at least in the short term.

An earlier draft of the FY2026 defence budget released by the House appropriations committee in June would have circumvented the administration’s cuts and restored F/A-XX funding. Lawmakers at the time even expressed a preference for increasing the programme’s FY2026 budget to $971 million.

In response, the White House issued a memo outlining its rationale for an emphasis on the F-47 at the expense of the carrier-based sixth-generation fighter.

“Awarding the F/A-XX contract as written is likely to delay the higher-priority F-47 programme, with low likelihood of improving the timeline to field a navy sixth-generation fighter,” the executive office of the president said.

Although Congress has not yet approved the NDAA, and must separately pass appropriations legislation with actual spending authorisations, a legislative override of the White House’s wishes on F/A-XX now appears less likely – though certainly not impossible.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Steve Parker, lying out his teeth stating Boeing was capable of supporting both F-47 and F/A-XX fighter efforts simultaneously.

Plus A220 has problems too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYgAVCQmSLQ

Airbus "FINISHED" Boeing: 60 Years of Boeing Aviation History Ends, Handing Airbus The Crown!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OgHjmWOWec

Boeing is recognized the world over as a
Idіocracy based circus, managed by farcical MBA clowns supervising
a largely inept and inexperienced workforce of their own making.

This is not a groundless opinion by any means.
it’s a factual conclusion based in empirical data.

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It’s been nearly four months since the deadly Air India Boeing 787
Dreamliner cгash in Ahmedabad that claimed 260 lives —
and the controversy isn’t going away.
Now, India’s powerful pilot unions are calling for the entire Air India 787 fleet
to be grounded, after two more technical incidents in less than a week —
including one where a ram air turbine (RAT) deployed mid-flight.

In this video, we’ll break it down:

The latest incidents that reignited calls to ground the 787
What investigators have found about the June 12 cгash of AI171
Whether the fault lies with Boeing’s design or Air India’s maintenance

Boeing, the FAA, and Indian regulators all say the 787 is safe —
but pilots aren’t convinced. So who’s right?

https://youtu.be/gFhnrtAwX-c

@j6+1k73hj88q --- Airbus "FINISHED" Boeing:
No, Boeing "FINISHED" Boeing:

Boeing’s much-hyped 777X was supposed to enter service in 2020.
Now, after years of broken promises, engine issues, certification hurdles,
and billions in cost overruns, insiders say the first commercial flights
won’t happen until 2027—if even then.
Lufthansa, the launch customer, has already pushed the jet out of its
fleet plans until 2027.
Emirates, Boeing’s biggest 777X buyer, is bracing for more delays.
And analysts warn that Boeing could be forced to take billions in
accounting charges as the program bleeds cash.

Full Story
https://youtu.be/uuY_NH0MaAc

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I'm sure the show up to work late crowd, the blame your co-worker crowd, the sneak off and sleep crowd or the Work from Home slackers can point me to the Boeing jobs to apply to.

Boeing will receive limited delegation from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue airworthiness certificates for some of its 737 MAX and 787 airliners, the agency said.

https://skiesmag.com/news/faa-boeing-may-issue-airworthiness-certificates-for-some-737-max-787-dreamliners-under-limited-delegation/

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/congress-moves-to-restrict-usaf-kc-46-acquisitions-pending-engineering-fix/164516.article

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has stated that no decisions have been made about removing the 38 aircraft per month production cap on Boeing’s best-selling 737 MAX family aircraft, which has been in place since early 2024.

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/faa-boeing-737-max-cap-lift