Only the brightest and best on the Boeing tanker team.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/air-force-says-boeing-tankers-camera-repair-to-take-another-19-months/
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Would have been just as well off having China or Russia build this replacement tanker. Zero execution at Boeing and DOD must be so well bribed they don't care either.
Boeing is a repulsive disgrace. Don't know how decent people can look at themselves in a mirror and then go to work at that corrupt clown show.
Shame......Probably a lot of "bright and talented" employees on this program. Shame engineering and production management isn't the same. This program (among "many" other Commercial, Civil and Space), has been Ham & Egged to death!
Yeah, they don't treat normal employees well. They only treat "special" employees well. But many companies don't treat employees well. The real problem with Boeing is that once you get a good glimpse of their operation, you realize it is completely dysfunctional and miss-managed by some of most clueless people you will ever meet. So any Boeing normal employee with half a brain quickly looks for an escape path to a better and longer future.
After laying off 30,000 people for Covid they cannot find people who have an interest in working at Boeing who have any experience. It’s a problem they created with the way they treat employees.
There was some DOD discussion not too long ago about ordering some Airbus tankers to deal with the unusable Boeing tanker situation. Seems like it well past time for DOD to diversify away from Boeing given their inability to perform on so many DOD projects. Frus
If you knew the truth about how 787 was designed and manufactured, you would know they will be falling out of sky long before their life expectancy. 777 might have made a good tanker, but Boeing really isn't capable of engineering anything anymore. Airbus would have been the best choice as other person indicated.
Should have gone with Airbus tanker built in US. Just shows how much damage a few corrupt congressmen can do to US. Imagine needing to depend on Boeing in time of War. We need other more capable and dependable defense companies quick.
That was a very old airplane with a lot of old drawings that need updating it was a bad decision to use that airplane instead of the 787 for the tanker