The contract #Boeing got for a new spaceship was fixed-price, and worth much more than SpaceX got for the same job. Boeing has for decades gotten fat off of cost-plus contracts, meaning they could bloat the project until shareholders were fat & happy & DOD just kept paying them.
One fixed-price contract & they turn into helpless marshmallows.
#Boeing is investing further in the #Montreal#aerospace hub after winning the award for #Canada’s ASW competition with the P-8A Poseidon over a competing bid from #Bombardier. The company already has a strong regional presence, with over 500 suppliers for various Boeing programs.
Boeing is investing C$240 million in a #partnership with the #Quebec government to create an aerospace innovation zone in #Montreal.
Ein Toter nach schweren Turbulenzen auf Flug nach Singapur
Nach schweren Turbulenzen während eines Passagierflugs von London nach Singapur ist ein Mensch ums Leben gekommen. Die Maschine von Singapore Airlines musste außerplanmäßig in Bangkok zwischenlanden.
My position on guillotine imagery and sabre rattling at oligarchs is — amusingly — expressed best by Ali Wong:
"…we just wanna experience some risk and be out of control, you know? Like, “I don’t wanna die! Don’t kill me! I don’t wanna die!” But I also don’t want to be sure that I’m gonna live. You know? I just wanna be out of control for once. Just– Just choke me enough so that I can’t talk. ‘Cause if I can talk, I’m gonna tell you what to do."
Don't kill them. I don't want them to die. Don't murder them. But I also don't want them to be sure they're gonna live. I just wanna have them out of control for once.
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If #Boeing execs keep feeling sure they're going to live, they're going to keep killing #whistleblowers. It won't stop with Boeing. Remember that time Elon tried to have police murder a Tesla whistleblower. He won't be coy next time, he'll just order a hit.
#Boeing is killing whistleblowers like they're #Russian dissidents, so please DO keep with the #guillotine imagery. The oligarchs are afraid. That's why they're killing us. They need to be more afraid, though.
As far as #Boeing executives go, we're past the point of intimidation. Some Boeing execs and probably some #shareholders need to die to make this right. They aren't going to stop killing us otherwise.
If I believed laws would be upheld and executives put in prison, I would accept that. But we're past that point if you've been paying attention. #Capitalism is over. We're witnessing a new era of #Mercantilism that the powerful are trying to bring about. Boeing is doing a flex; they want to appear sovereign and above being governed by us.
If we band together and organize, we are more powerful than #Boeing. We could always try a strike if you're feeling sympathetic towards #Billionaire necks.
"If we band together and organize, we are more powerful than #Boeing. We could always try a strike if you're feeling sympathetic towards #Billionaire necks."
Hard not to take that as very thinly veiled advocacy for murder.
Do you think this speculation is probably correct or incorrect? If you think I'm incorrect, then what are you worrying over, those billionaire necks will be fine.
If you think they DID have the whistleblowers killed AND you agree that the U.S. justice system won't pursue these crimes, come again with what you think is hard to take?
QUESTION ABOUT #BOEING
are all the malfunctioning airplanes only used for domestic flights? were all the malfunctioning planes deployed only for use inside of USA?
was wondering if, since other countries have their own plane inspection programs, why would other countries not catch any of the problems with those planes? and i reckoned that maybe it's because Boeing was selling those faulty planes to USA airlines only for domestic flights; by-passing inspections from other countries.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has delayed its launch a second time, this time due to a helium leak. This is extra hard for Boeing because having that silly-high-helium-voice makes it difficult to be taken seriously when you’re trying to hire whistleblower assassins.