It can't build planes that fly, its quality control has gone to shit, but Boeing's got its laser-like focus on what truly matters.
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Bang Dang Woke comes in for landing
The gentleman in question wrote the article in 1987 while serving as a combat pilot, and was fired after a single employee found it and complained.
What Boeing can’t seem to find is the construction debris it’s leaving in its planes:
Boeing has “a severe situation” in an assembly-line culture that allowed tools and parts to be left inside tankers delivered to the U.S. Air Force, the service’s acquisition chief said Wednesday.
Will Roper recently met with executives at Boeing’s plant in Everett, Washington, where the company builds commercial widebody aircraft — and the KC-46 tanker, a version of the 767 jetliner.
“I left concerned,” Roper said Wednesday after speaking at a McAleese & Associates/Credit Suisse conference in Washington. “I also left thinking Boeing understands they’ve got a severe situation that’s going to take top-level engagement from their company. They are committed to doing that.”
The day also saw the U.S. government become the last major country to ground the 737 Max, Boeing’s popular narrowbody commercial jetliner, after crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The 737 Max is assembled about 40 miles south of Everett at a factory in Renton, Washington.
Boeing was supposed to get its first KC-46 in 2017, but design and software problems delayed the first delivery until January. After receiving a handful of the tankers, the Air Force began finding tools and parts inside some of the planes, prompting the service to suspend deliveries. The items are known as foreign object debris, or FOD.
