Boeing’s CEO is resigning amid ongoing problems at the company over the troubled Max 737 aircraft.I love that "Chicago manufacturer" shit. Because Boeing doesn't make anything in Chicago, other than stupid decisions. They are a manufacturer whose headquarters is located a three-hour airplane ride from where they actually make the things that people regard as "Boeing aircraft".
The Chicago manufacturer said Monday that Dennis Muilenburg is stepping down immediately. The board’s current chairman David Calhoun will officially take over on January 13.
Oh, sure, they're only an hour's flight away from the McDonnell plant where F-18s are still being made (and reworked). But only the drain-bamaged refer to F-18s as "Boeings".
Besides all of the stupid stuff, such as allegedly getting the sales people involved in detailed design, Boeing's dumbest mistake was to move corporate HQ away from where they did the business of making airplanes.
Second mistake was making airplanes in South Carolina.
Boeing would do well to find executives who have actual experience running successful manufacturing operations, with points taken off for having a MBA degree and/or accounting or law degrees. They need people running the company who know how to make shit that isn't as useless as rubber dogshit.
Could spend those CEO salaries on in-house programmers that know something about avionics.
ReplyDeleteWhat Ten Bears said. This whole 737 MAX debacle was the consequence of them trying to back engineer software that made the MAX "feel" enough like previous 737s that it wouldn't require pilots to be re-certified to fly it.
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Read what the failures were.
ReplyDeleteThe failure was that the engineers were not allowed to make decisions on systems. 'Twas the Marketing and software folks that made the choices.
Poor (or nonexistent) redundancy and overly powerful software that did this. MCAS was never supposed to be able to be as overriding as it became. It was originally designed as a trim feature, It became much more than that.
As out hostess points out, Decisions are now made in CHicago, not where the designs are actually implemented. CEO's and MBA's make the decisions that were once the responsibility of engineers who knew something. Once, engineers ran things, now, not so much.
The whole Boeing moving to Chicago thing was a mystery to me. Seattle is a vastly nicer place to live, especially when you factor in the Chicago winters.
ReplyDeleteIf they had to train up the pilots on the MCAS system, that would defeat the purpose of it, which was to avoid having to re-certify all of those pilots, which would have hindered the sale of the planes.
ReplyDeleteThe manual fix for runaway trim on the MAX is not something that can be done in time to save the plane at low altitudes while dicking around with the software.
-Doug in Oakland
Word from a contact at Boeing is that the long-tenure engineers are saying that the company changed from being driven by engineers to being driven by MBAs when they merged with McDonnell-Douglas.
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