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What's up with Boeing and how does it get fixed? Is it an engineering issue, or a factory issue?

'Airplanes Are Not Like Ikea Furniture': American Airlines Pilot Sounds Alarm On Boeing 'Mess' (msn.com)
'Airplanes Are Not Like Ikea Furniture': American Airlines Pilot Sounds Alarm On Boeing 'Mess' (msn.com)

Management. Boeing is what happens when bean counters and MBAs run an engineering organization.

Go read 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet by Joe Sutter, who was the chief engineer on the project. Boeing of the 50s and 60s is a very different animal from how it is now.

Management. Boeing is what happens when bean counters and MBAs run an engineering organization.

Go read 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet
747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet by Joe Sutter, who was the chief engineer on the project. Boeing of the 50s and 60s is a very different animal from how it is now.

Is it really that bad?  Because it almost seems to me that a business that builds machines as complicated as Boeing does is always going to have some issues.  The door blowing out was bad, but nobody died.  The MCAS crashes have been acknowledged as a failure but there is some doubt about the ability of the pilots to understand the system that was operating mostly as intended.  There has to be thousands of their planes flying safely every day, with no issues, but now every time something happens it gets endless media coverage.  Almost as if the media has it in for them.  

Larry Robbins jokes he’s the last hedge fund manager to move to Florida.

But unlike those who relocated before him — most notably Citadel’s Ken Griffin — Robbins’ move comes with a twist. The founder of Glenview Capital Management is going to make Florida his family home and keep New York his professional one, at least for now.


Robbins, 54, will commute to Manhattan starting in August and largely abide by Glenview’s three-days-in-the-office policy — using his Alpine, New Jersey home as his base, he said in an interview. Meanwhile, he, his wife and three young children will temporarily live in a mansion in Palm Beach Gardens while building a house in Hobe Sound after his kids were admitted to the prestigious Benjamin School.

The decision by Robbins, a longtime leader at the Robin Hood Foundation, an antipoverty charity popular on Wall Street, ushers in a potentially new phase of the city’s wealth migration. While other Robin Hood board members like Paul Tudor Jones, Dan Och and Barry Sternlicht flocked to Florida in a more typical “snowbird” shift, Robbins is opting to relocate at a time when New York is trying to find its footing after the pandemic upended its economy.

“I know of no business that has generated long term success by driving away its highest paying customers,” Robbins said during an hour-long interview, his first since disclosing his plans to investors. “I am in fear for New York’s most vulnerable to become victimized by the great migration.”


https://fortune.com/2024/04/10/larry-robbins-hedge-fund-manager-moving-florida-from-new-york/

Probably the biggest threat to our carriers is large torpedoes, many of them.  The problem with an ICBM kind of attack with conventional warheads is that the warhead when reentering is blinded, the "blackout" phenomenon.  The shielding gets very hot and cuts of any radio emissions in or out.  So, it can be redirected, and it can't use radar to ponpoint the carrier group.  By the time it comes out of blackout, a carrier group, being alerted to the attack, would be ten miles away from any possible point of impact.  This wouldn't require any Aegis screening of course.  You could saturate the area and maybe get lucky, but even that is improbable.

A carrier is a tough kill, the battle group would have of course a number of other vessels around it including a 688 class submarine.  The Soviet era Backfire bomber was designed to kill carrier groups, and the F-14 was designed to shoot down Backfires at extreme range.  That era is gone.  The Chinese no doubt have looked carefully at all of this, their most obvious approach is to build their own carriers, smaller ones, but plausibly capable in time.  Ours are spread over the globe, or being refurbished, or in quals, so it's not easy for us to put two of them together in one theater for a period of time.  I think we have ten now, and three are usually in dock, 3 are in quals, and 4 may be on station, that can be surged for a while.

So, the FBI director is warning us of a terror attack(s) within our borders. Not that we have those... I wonder how the supposed terrorists gained entry to our country?

What a cluster.

FISA has never been abused...

Andrew Zimmern just said:

"When you eat at a 3* Michelin restaurant, you get a child's portion meal designed by an interior decorator."

In my sole example, there was a LOT of food, more than my wife could eat.  But I agree each "dish" was served s a decoration.  The taste and any quality of the food was obliterated by that, in my view.  That's the main reason I disdained the experience.  

I fully prefer a dish be artfully prepared, no problem with that, but this was an extreme.  If it tastes good and is interesting, it wouldn't need to be served perched on a rock.

Of course, I also disdained "Hamilton", something apparently rare as an opinion.