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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 -
Why is Boeing such a shitty corporation?
Robert Reich Friends, My friend Harold Meyerson just wrote this for The American Prospect, and it’s so good and timely that I wanted to share it with you. In the wake of the midair blowout of a door on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 earlier this month, the lead that Airbus has taken over Boeing -
Boeing is under fire after Alaska Airlines MAX 9 blowout. So is the FAA
By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times staff reporter Nearly a week after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 aircraft midflight, lawmakers and federal regulators are starting to look to the Boeing plane’s troubled history to understand what happened — and what didn’t. On Thursday, fingers started pointing. The Federal Aviation Administration announced -
Boeing 2707
A rendered or artistic depiction of a Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) supersonic transport aircraft bearing registration number N7003, shown flying above cloud cover with afterburners lit. This appears to be a concept or promotional illustration of the American SST program, for which Pan Am held early options in the 1960s-70s before the U.S. government cancelled the Boeing 2707 program. -
NASA and Boeing chase jet contrails with science of climate impact in doubt
By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter Scientific debate is getting heated over what to do about airplane contrails — the wispy lines of water vapor you often see trailing behind a jet. Those harmless-looking vapor trails sometimes spread out to form thin cirrus clouds. Environmental activists and nonprofits focused on climate change routinely assert -
Private and Business Jets Parked on Ramp Near Boeing Facility
Multiple private/business aircraft parked on a ramp, including a dark-colored midsize jet and a white jet with red accent striping, photographed near a Boeing facility. Image credit visible: Anthony Bolante | PSBJ (Puget Sound Business Journal). -
The secret dispute behind cleaning Seattle’s only river
By Lulu Ramadan Seattle Times staff reporter This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network and The Seattle Times, with support from the Investigative Journalism Fund. Sign up for Seattle Times newsletters and alerts and ProPublica’s Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Times Watchdog stories dig deep to hold power accountable, right wrongs and -
2023-06-30Governor Jay Inslee at the Paris Air Show, June 2023
Washington Governor Jay Inslee in discussion with Sheila (surname uncertain), a Boeing official, at the Paris Air Show, June 20, 2023 — identified from the original filename (inslee-paris), matching visual appearance, and JC identification. -
2023-06-30Aviation Industry Display at Air Show
Multiple commercial aircraft are on static display at what appears to be a major aviation trade show or airshow, including a Boeing 737 in Boeing's blue livery and a JetBlue-liveried aircraft. Also visible is a tail with an 'R' logo (Rioja or similar operator) and registration N8572C; an air traffic control tower is visible in the background.