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Boeing Has An Airplane Problem, Not a PR Problem
The 787 Dreamliner has been vexed since its inception. The company was convinced by one or more management consulting firms to outsource design and production of the 787’s components. While this idea might make sense for sourcing coffeemakers, it was a nonsense approach to assembling perhaps the most complicated and potentially dangerous machines shy of nuclear reactors. (www.forbes.com) المزيد...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
My apologies -- my sentence should have read "This article is AS ignorant as it is poorly written." Thank goodness I'm not a professional writer working for Forbes!
Rubbish. This article is ignorant as it is poorly written. With the author's intolerance and reaction to technological development and advancement, we really should still be winging about in wood and fabric Wright Flyers. A single-winged aeroplane made of "METAL"?Surely you can't be serious?!?!
Intolerance? What are you talking about? The author made a bunch of good points. We can't just pretend that nothing is going on with this plane just because the word Boeing is associated with it. The thing has been a boondoggle since the first non-fitting part came in from China.
“ There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. ” — Aristotle
This quote is at the head of the Forbes article in the URL and in this situation is so true. When you are #1 and try to do better, strange things happen. It can be likened to the Coca-Cola blunder that was made years ago in trying to bring Coke Classic out in front instead of leaving things alone.They finally over came it but not without a lot of grief and money. Boeing is going to have to get out ahead of all this and take back control of the process. As the article says, there is a lot of difference between coffemakers and airliners.
This quote is at the head of the Forbes article in the URL and in this situation is so true. When you are #1 and try to do better, strange things happen. It can be likened to the Coca-Cola blunder that was made years ago in trying to bring Coke Classic out in front instead of leaving things alone.They finally over came it but not without a lot of grief and money. Boeing is going to have to get out ahead of all this and take back control of the process. As the article says, there is a lot of difference between coffemakers and airliners.
I agree for the most part, but this article is pretty biased. "Oh, and they decided to build the airplane out of plastic" .... seems to convey an image of an airplane fabricated from recycled detergent bottles, instead of high tech carbon fiber. The author would've had more credibilty had he addressed the technical issues with the airplane with some objectivity. Does he really think Boeing....BOEING(!) is really that inept and reckless in building new aircraft?
Well, they definitely had a brain fart when they embarked on this program. I do have to agree with you on the "plastic" part, but they really did screw up in going outside with such new technolgy.
Yep, no question it could've been planned and managed better, but I think they moved pretty quickly when the problems became evident. At least for a program of its size. I don't see a real problem systematically as it sits now, more just getting bugs worked out of subassemblies and components that are mostly new designs and more innovative. It's not like sticking new engines on the 737 or redesigning an interior. The folks accross the pond are still doing the same with their double decker, the last all new aircraft to be built. And it uses a lot more existing technology and componentry.
Yeah, but the 787 is really taking the center stage right now and is overshadowing those problems across the pond. Ain't it amazing we all of a sudden started hearing about electrical probems instead of wing ribs,lol
Yep. Plum amazing.