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2024-05-18
Boeing’s low-key board chair steps into the spotlight with CEO hunt
By Julie Johnsson , Ian King and Siddharth Philip Bloomberg As Boeing’s board searches for a chief executive officer to steer the U.S. plane-maker out of its worst crisis in years, directors are intent on finding a leader who can make a fresh start — meaning deep aerospace experience isn’t necessarily required. That opens the -
Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
Somewhere along the line, the plane maker lost interest in making its own planes. Can it rediscover its engineering soul? By Jerry Useem Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The sight of Bill Boeing was a familiar one on the factory floor. His office was in the building next to the converted boatyard where workers lathed the -
2024-04-07
Boeing’s long fall, and how it might recover
By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter The intense backlash against Boeing after the near catastrophe aboard an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX in January wasn’t a reaction to an isolated manufacturing error but to a yearslong decline of safety standards. The arc of Boeing’s fall can be traced back a quarter century, to when its -
Why Boeing is such a shitty company (continued)
Friends, On Friday, machinists at Rogue Valley International Airport in Medford, Oregon, discovered that a United Airlines plane that had landed from San Francisco was missing an external panel (see photo, above). The plane was manufactured by Boeing. It was carrying 139 passengers and 6 crew. No one was injured, thank heavens. The missing panel -
2024-01-25Aircraft Cockpit Comparison: 747-100 vs 747-8
Side-by-side comparison of cockpits from two Boeing 747 variants: the analog-instrument-heavy 747-100 (top) and the glass-cockpit 747-8 (bottom), as labeled by visible text. A watermark reading 'Astro' is visible in both images. -
Boeing’s manufacturing, ethical lapses go back decades
By Andy Pasztor Special to The Seattle Times Probes of the recent Boeing 737 MAX cabin blowout must expand far beyond safety practices and manufacturing controls. Investigators should scrutinize persistent company failures over the past four decades to become more transparent and law-abiding. Before this month’s cabin blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet -
Boeing 747 Approach Over Urban Waterfront — Noise Policy Collage
A digitally composited or stylized image showing a wide-body jet aircraft (appearing to be a Boeing 747) on approach, overlaid with a teal-toned urban waterfront skyline including high-rise buildings and a Ferris wheel. The image has a distressed, cracked-glass texture overlay and a chain-link fence silhouette in the foreground, suggesting a noise or flight-path policy illustration context. -
Boeing hit by quality lapses, certification delays; Airbus soars to dominance
By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter While Boeing’s leadership scrambled to contain its latest crisis — following the in-flight door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 — top executives at Airbus confidently laid out the rival’s success in 2023 and its dominance of the commercial airliner business. The data on last year’s jet -
Congress must force Boeing to be better
By The Seattle Times editorial board Boeing is in the region’s collective DNA. Even though the company decamped for Chicago in 2001 and is now headquartered in a corporate suburb of Washington, D.C., Boeing still has a special place in our consciousness that goes beyond its statewide workforce of about 60,000. Call it pride. Pride