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Potato Salad posted:Reminder that the USG is largely a fetish--a fall guy--that's too often and too easily blamed for problems created/sponsored outside government. The buck doesn't necessarily stop there. There's circumstances where the clear road to improvement actually lies in government, such as this instance where improved oversight, reversal of regulatory capture, and a deterrent of criminal convictions are likely going to be important components of any good solution to the Boeing and airline maintenance problem. drat and here I was trying to not get too anticap outside cspam but yes 
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also like, Chrysler was nationalized in 2009. that was not that long ago.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:also like, Chrysler was nationalized in 2009. that was not that long ago. And Government Motors. How soon we forget.
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slidebite posted:I loved the one where he kept adding more and more shoulder epaulets as the video kept going until they were almost going down his arm. Don't sleep on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6q2VKsvQEQ
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The Boom XB-1 apparently flew for the first time yesterday. https://youtu.be/ON2_9XFjKl4?si=3g0xr6ZPb6RWUeNC I remain sure that a production version will remain forever vaporware, but I am guardedly hopeful.
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MrYenko posted:The Boom XB-1 apparently flew for the first time yesterday. A private company developed a (presumably) supersonic jet. Pretty amazing. The demo is using J85s though, still gotta make their own engine. They’re doing this at the right time though with Boeing’s rep in the shitter for the foreseeable future there was never a better time to launch a new airline.
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hobbesmaster posted:The engine is the hard part Hence the fact that despite intensive espionage efforts, the Chinese are still trying to make Russian engine designs more efficient because even if you had the plans/schematics for the F119 and/or F135, if your manufacturing quality and metallurgy aren't up to snuff, nothing's going to work reliably enough.
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Spaced God posted:The United States Government would launch nuclear weapons at its population centers if its citizens tried to make it nationalize anything, let alone Boeing Force privatization and force Lockheed and GD to each buy half.
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CarForumPoster posted:A private company developed a (presumably) supersonic jet. Pretty amazing. Lol, did you, like, look at the thing? E: that was mean, but they have a ways to go before that thing goes supersonic, much less they make it into a passenger jet. quote:XB-1 met all of its test objectives, including safely and successfully achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph). Elviscat fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Elviscat posted:Lol, did you, like, look at the thing? in fairness if I was a VC looking at funding a project and they said "yeah for our first test vehicle we're going to build a full scale aircraft and send it" I would give them zero money
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mad.radhu posted:in fairness if I was a VC looking at funding a project and they said "yeah for our first test vehicle we're going to build a full scale aircraft and send it" I would give them zero money You're not a VC-brained moron, though.
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Beef Of Ages posted:You're not a VC-brained moron, though. no but i'm definitely a moron
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mad.radhu posted:in fairness if I was a VC looking at funding a project and they said "yeah for our first test vehicle we're going to build a full scale aircraft and send it" I would give them zero money It's a sensible move from an R&D perspective yes, I was responding mainly to "A private company developed a (presumably) supersonic jet. Pretty amazing." Which, I'll hold off on being amazed until they work through the massive hurdles they have in from of them.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Don't sleep on this. "Now I've been quite hard on flight instructors in this video, and if you are one I hope you'll take it in the spirit it was intended...which was to give you crap about flying large patterns!"
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Elviscat posted:It's a sensible move from an R&D perspective yes, I was responding mainly to "A private company developed a (presumably) supersonic jet. Pretty amazing." Which, I'll hold off on being amazed until they work through the massive hurdles they have in from of them. Yeah. They made a Plane. And I mean that’s legit good for them, there’s a whole graveyard of companies that have very much failed to make a Plane. But a Plane is not a supersonic certified passenger jet with commercially viable turnaround times and maintenance windows.
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I would just like to point out that lockheed, northrop, general dynamics, mcdonnell-douglas, grumman, convair, and dassault are just some of the private companies that have developed supersonic aircraft.
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I was doing a road trip a couple of weeks ago and came across an aviation museum in Temora in NSW, Australia. I knew nothing about this museum, other than the fact that they had two Spitfires there, and all the planes are still in flying condition, except for one. This museum covers both WWII and Vietnam era warbirds  A CAC Boomerang. Sadly it had lunched its engine recently so being stripped down for repairs  A Ryan trainer  Cessna A37 Dragonfly. This was captured by the NVA during the Vietnam War, but somehow got back to the West. Still used by the Chilean Air Force, and GE still makes new jet engines for it  The last original flying English Electric Canberra bomber in the world. NASA has two heavily modified Canberras for high altitude weather work. This was flying over the town when I arrived.  Cockpit of the Canberra  Cool little Tiger Moth  The last flying example of a Lockheed Hudson bomber in the world  Since it was based off a passenger aircraft, it could be used to bomb the Japanese then take casualties out of the battlefield  CAC Wirraway, a well used WWII trainer in Australia  Spitfire. This one was used for ground attacks, mainly going for trains that were supplying V2 bomber sites. This Spitfire was used as a parts plane for the 1969 Battle of Britain movie, then got rebuilt in the 80s. It was getting some maintenance before flying out for an air show later that week.  The second Spitfire. Known as the Grey Nurse, it was flown by RAAF crews in the European theatre  Gloister Meteor  Bird Dog, used for Forward Control work in Vietnam  CAC CA-27 Sabre. Based off the F86, it used a Rolls Royce jet engine instead of the GE in the F86. This is the only plane that can not fly in the collection, as the propellant to eject the ejector seat is no longer made, and the RAAF won't allow a single engine jet to fly without an operational ejector seat.  The engine that made sure the Allies stuck it to the Axis  Beep Beep Jeep
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Awesome photos from a Canberra
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Calhoun is out at Boeing. Chairman of the Board is also departing, and the president of Boeing Commercial Aircraft is gone effective immediately.
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This is the literal purpose of a CEO. Get blamed, get paid, get another job as CEO
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The X-man cometh posted:Are Calhoun and Deal part of the McDonnell Douglas group that was ruining everything? Calhoun has a background first with GE coming out of college up through senior leadership on all kinds of projects. From 2005 onward, he basically worked in marketing and private equity firms until joining Boeing, over a decade after the McDD / Boeing merger. Deal is a career Boeing guy, pre-merger.
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Sagebrush posted:I would just like to point out that lockheed, northrop, general dynamics, mcdonnell-douglas, grumman, convair, and dassault are just some of the private companies that have developed supersonic aircraft. I don’t mean to move the goalposts here but the surprising part is not the private ownership, it’s the private funding and lack of a government contract. Even Concorde had an intergovernmental treaty. The percentage of Boom funding that has come from the govt is seemingly less than 10% instead of 75-100%.
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CarForumPoster posted:I don’t mean to move the goalposts here but the surprising part is not the private ownership, it’s the private funding and lack of a government contract. Even Concorde had an intergovernmental treaty. I don't think you are moving the goalposts at all. None of those companies would have produced supersonic aircraft had it not been for government contracts or at least competition for a government contract. I guess if Howard Hughes was alive he might have funded it for shits and giggles? lilbeefer fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Reading through some of the Cloudberg stuff and I enjoyed this: "Of course, being weird isn’t a crime, but he had committed actual crimes as well:"
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We get it, APU; you vape
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I survived flying on an Alaska Max 9 today, but my rear end about fell off after 5 hours in those goddamn new seats - even in first.
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Jimong5 posted:The chemtrail machine is only supposed to be run at altitude Thread title
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