Thread regarding Boeing Co. layoffs

The Air Force Is Ignoring the Pegasus Tanker’s Problems
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/air-force-ignoring-pegasus-tanker%E2%80%99s-problems-193892

Serious deficiencies didn't stop the Air Force from accepting them into service.
Here's What You Need to Remember: The Pegasus was originally scheduled for
operational deployment in 2017 but has a long history of technical problems
and cost delays—though in a rare win for taxpayers, Boeing has had to assume
over $3 billion of those overruns at its own expense because it accepted a
fixed-price contract.

https://spacenews.com/starliner-investigation-continues/
Scientist and engineers have been unable to figure out why and how Boeing
Is still in business.
“Cautiously optimistic is a good way to describe how the team is feeling,”
John Vollmer, Boeing vice president and commercial crew program manager,
said in a statement.
High on Boeing Blue Kool-aid is a reasonable assumption for their chronic
delusional giddy disorder when believing everything they do is right when
in fact the opposite is true, under the influence is the only possible expiation.
Boeing is a Bill and Ted Excellent Adventure…

It’s hard to fathom the Pentagon throwing away taxpayer money like that
Buying a garbage non functional deathtrap for what, A Discreet Bail-Out
Where is the oversight? Apparently our government is as dysfunctional
As Boeing, go figure

Air Force KC-46 Tankers are Flying as Good as Blind
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/air-force-kc-46-tankers-are-flying-good-blind-190197
July 23, 2021
The U.S. Air Force admitted that its new aerial tanker doesn’t work.
But the service still wants to keep buying the flawed Refueler’s while also
retiring older tankers that everyone knows work just fine.
After all its just the money is free it comes from the Tax Cattle, you and me.
The Air Force has decided it would deploy Boeing new KC-46 tanker only in
the event of a major war,
the service's chief of staff Gen. David Goldfein told U.S. Transportation Command and Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

For more information dial 1-800 Boeing - Junk

The KC-46 is a joke, sad for the people who have to fly this piece of junk and sad for the taxpayers who had to pay for this pile of crxp, I hope the team at pathetic Aviall/Boeing Distribution in Dallas is stockpiling parts with all their stupid meaningless spreadsheets for this POS that spends more time on the ground than in air.

Every program that's launched since McDonnell Douglas took over has been a disaster.
I hope Airbus gets the contract because Boeing sure as f doesn't deserve it.

This is "ONE BOEING" in action...the commercial product is junk, the military product is junk, the space product is junk etc...it's ONE BOEING !

How the KC-46 Pegasus became another 737 MAX for Boeing
https://www.aerotime.aero/28229-How-KC-46-Pegasus-became-another-737-MAX
26th June 2021
A Parade of Failures
The list of failures is far too extensive to detail here.
Suffice to say, “A Parade of Failures” describes Boeing as a whole, at every level.
This is to be expected when “What Was” an engineering company is now
Managed By Accountants.

I can see their MCAS tricycle now. Of course there going to tie the child’s
feet to the pedals for added safety.

Boeing is a JOKE, I wouldn't trust them to manufacture a SAFE tricycle for a 3 year old without stability augmentation issues....

@1tre
We have already been “told” by the DOD not to bid on some contracts
They don’t want our hair in there soup.
Boeing’s been trying to keep that under wraps for the sake of share price

Layoffs coming again! 767 program is gone. Any AMTs not hired before 2010 will get laid off! Too bad all you worthless green light noobs wasted your time turning those lights on! Meaaahahahaaa!

This is the reason why boeing defense never wins a large contracts. The military never believes their cost numbers, they always overrun.

The important question is why the he$$ does Leanne Caret still have a job?? This women is the executive vice president of Boeing, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), Ms. Caret's Boeing division she oversees is responsible for Boeing AF KC-46 Tanker which has become a total clusterfuc$

I'm sure Ms. Caret is still receiving her millions in salary and millions in bonuses.
I wouldn't be surprised if Ms. Caret came for McDonnell Douglas, because that is how McD rolls.

Airbus responds to Air Force call for new tankers to replace Boeing's KC-46

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2021/06/17/air-force-seeks-new-refueling-tankers/8381623955868/?ur3=1

June 17, 2021 -- (UPI)
The U.S. Air Force seeks up to 160 new refueling tankers,
according to a contract notice posted this week,
As lawmakers are pushing for the Air Force to terminate its KC-46 contract
with Boeing.
"We are responding to the U.S. Air Force's Sources Sought Notification for the
Bridge Tanker Program, offering a mission-ready solution to meet the Air Force's
future tanker requirements," Rob Fuller, a Lockheed Martin spokesman said.

A Delusional Statement From Boeing:
Boeing said it will enter its KC-46 in the new bridge tanker contest.
"With 102 aircraft on order and growing international interest,
Boeing's KC-46A is proven and matured for the next stage of combat air
refueling capabilities and airborne battle management,
which will extend the Air Force's ability to deliver critical fuel and information
for decades to come," Deborah VanNierop, a Boeing spokeswoman, said in a
Blue Kool-aid induced trance.

• BOEING

Bloated
Obsolescence
Egotistical
Incompetence
Negligent
Goons

More Cost Overruns Are Coming Down The Line For Boeing:
As the KC-46 program logs even more technical deficiencies
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/06/17/more-cost-overruns-are-coming-down-the-line-for-boeing-as-the-kc-46-program-logs-another-two-technical-deficiencies/
06/17/2021
WASHINGTON — Boeing will have to pay to fix two new technical problems
afflicting the KC-46 refueling tanker, which the U.S. Air Force has designated
as “category 1” deficiencies that rank among the program’s most critical issues.
As Boeing struggles to adapt to a new reality where the company is responsible
for their inadequacies and not the tax payers. “A new concept for the company”.

The Air Force has discovered that drain tubes in the KC-46′s air refueling
receptacle which are used to drain water out of the aircraft can become cracked
when the tanker operates in cold temperatures, such as “at altitude” a common
practice of aircraft, heretofore unknown to Boeing’s woke millennial engineers.

The second problem involves a software bug in the KC-46′s
Flight Management System, which has triggered “Navigation Anomalies”
Most recently a March 3 flight over the Pacific Ocean.
The crew “deferred to other navigation methods and did not declare an
in-flight emergency;
The aircraft landed safely in Honolulu,” while in rout to New York.
Again tracing this issue back to cost cutting via outsourced software
assigned to the tech firms, HCL Technologies and Cyient Ltd. of Indian.
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Also. There are problems on max, 787 and 777x. What else can go wrong ;-)
Last successful program was the current 777 in production, in 1995, on plan
How far we have gone down the drain... seems we cannot lead, design and build anything anymore
If there is a significant successful program recently, i missed it

Ha Ha ...is anyone surprised ? This is what happens when you work for three decades to create a rotten, toxic, dysfunctional culture from top to bottom that manufactures sub-standard products.

Withered wrinkled brown steamy squishy squashy and stinky
That’s our number two Boeing
History will remember well how a once great company, a colossus in aviation
Was molded into a smoldering pit, a laughingstock
A gapping festering maw of corruption and incompetence
Sliced open to be bled dry and infected by a Wall Street gang of greed.
#2

"Proving once again Boeing is #2"

That's generous.