More Boeing Bad News

[PHXPhlyer]

Here's the press release from Boeing.

https://leehamnews.com/2019/12/16/boein ... more-31988

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[PHXPhlyer]

Better article on production stoppage.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/b ... employees/

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[TheGreenGoblin]

This production stoppage will cause chaos, and has big financial implications, for other companies in the aircraft supply chain all over the world, but mostly in the US where the economic impact will be noticeable.

Forbes on the supply chain impact

[PHXPhlyer]

Max production shut-down.

https://leehamnews.com/2019/12/17/minim ... more-31993

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[Ex-Ascot]

90+ fuselages parked.

[Sisemen]

Thought that was BBQ full of sausages at first

[Ex-Ascot]

Thought that was BBQ full of sausages at first

It does doesn't it. Boeing's Christmas party.

[ian16th]

Do Boeing have more parked Max's than the RAF has aircraft?

[Slasher]

Thought that was BBQ full of sausages at first

Me too. The fuselage supports even makes ‘em look like they’re sizzling.

Pity they weren’t sossies as they would’ve certainly made Dr Price happy.

[Capetonian]

I thought it was a spoof and I had to look very hard at it to realise it wasn't sausages on a rack.

[llondel]

Looks like the new design of the 737-CAT, the aviation equivalent of the nautical catamaran.

[OFSO]

Strip out the avionics, remove the motors, and sell the hulls as affordable housing. With undercarriage down and locked, as mobile homes. Stand on end, as grain silos.

Free up space in parking to manufacture more...

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Storage vats for IRN-BRU

[llondel]

Strip out the avionics, remove the motors, and sell the hulls as affordable housing. With undercarriage down and locked, as mobile homes. Stand on end, as grain silos.

Free up space in parking to manufacture more...

Leave the APU installed and it's a nice off-grid dwelling place.

[OFSO]

Ship to Botswana to make homes for hippos...

[Undried Plum]

Take 346 of 'em; semi-bury each one vertically, nose-down; in neat rank and file with the name of a victim clearly shown on each one.

Choose a locus which is conspicuously visible from the lofty office windows of the Boeing C-class suites, or perhaps on L'Enfant Plaza, so that the perpetrators have a daily reminder of the true cost of corner-cutting.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The rest can logically then be placed one outside the foyer of every Business School that awards MBAs.

[OFSO]

Can't even get the Starliner transport system oriented correctly to dock with the ISS. Boeing no longer a name associated with good management.

[PHXPhlyer]

Blame it on MCAS?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/tech/boe ... index.html

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[Boac]

It was, apparently, an issue with 'the clock'. Did someone forget to wind it? It is bound to be Rosie's fault. Should have put a male dummy there..............................