Fasten your seatbelts

[Mik]

[Mik]

Boeing has corrected their 737 Max planes and they are ready to fly.

[George K]

[Copper]

Our diversity is our strength

[George K]

The good(ish) news: The bolts on the door weren't loose.

The (very) bad news: They weren't there at all.

[Jolly]

Well, QA seems to be slightly lacking...

[Mik]

GM-like.

[George K]

[George K]

Saw a story about former Boeing engineers saying that they would NEVER fly on a 737 Max - poor design, worse maintenance, etc.

And this - A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/a-cycle-of-misery-the-business-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=104058&post_id=141239420&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&utm_medium=email

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-delays-some-737-max-deliveries-after-new-quality-defect-2024-02-05/

"This past Thursday, a supplier notified us of a non-conformance in some 737 fuselages. I want to thank an employee at the supplier who flagged to his manager that two holes may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements," Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said in a letter to staff referring to Spirit, which is the sole 737 fuselage supplier.
"While this potential condition is not an immediate flight safety issue and all 737s can continue operating safely, we currently believe we will have to perform rework on about 50 undelivered airplanes," Deal said in the letter