She isn't qualified to manage a Burger King ... https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/stephanie-pope Folks at Boeing probably think that while there is POPE there is HOPE :-) Wow, such esteemed universities… ”…bachelor’s degree in accounting from Southwest Missouri State University and a Master of Bu...
Jump to postI am going based off what all my managers used to tell me & what I used to hear in hallway conversations when I was at Boeing in the early 2000s. The mess & rot that BCAG finds itself in over the past 24 years started with the MDD leadership (notably Harry Stonecipher). So, to answer your q...
Jump to post747megatop wrote:We really need an Alan Mulally and probably Phil Condit (in addition) heading Boeing and BCAG (Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group)
The 'Jack Welsh' model is so 1990's. He was the CEO of GE from 1985 to 2001, expanding its financial services sector but eventually destroying the company to a fraction of its peak. Many historical parts of the company are gone, it is mainly today jet engines and health care tech products. He put s...
Jump to postPut the Engineers back in charge and not the money people! Sadly, that ship has sailed. The days of grooming an engineer for the CEO spot ended in 1997. Don't forget, the CEO that made Boeing commercial into what it is today was a lawyer by trade. That would be Bill Allen. Mullinberger started out ...
Jump to postThe Boeing board of directors and highest leadership positions have been heavily influenced by GE Jim Mcnerney who was Boeing CEO 2005-2015 was from GE Kevin McAllister who was Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO 2017-2019 was from GE Dave Calhoun who is current CEO is from GE David Joyce who is on the...
Jump to postWhy did Gryder publish these things? - accusing Cook of having an extramarital affair - accusing Cook of lying to the FAA about his health - accusing Cook of selling a defective plane later involved in an accident https://www.globalair.com/articles/aviation-youtuber-ordered-to-pay-1m-in-defamation-...
Jump to postBut was the Sears Tower a good idea for Sears? There's hardly anything left of the company. 50 years ago they were huge. The face of retail has of course changed dramatically over the years but at the time it made sense to them. I am sure they could not have foreseen the way things developed in tha...
Jump to postThe first MD-11 ever built has been retired by FedEx and is now parked at VCV, the flight occurred on May 1. In it's almost thirty year career at FedEx, N601FE accumulated almost 92000 hours of flight time. While in the past FedEx has pulled aircraft out of the desert as needed for operations, with ...
Jump to postStory time. Back in the mid 2000's in an effort to save on fuel American Airlines decided to put low drag tail cones on all their MD-80's. The fleet at the time was a combo of the original DC-9 style and beaver tail style tail cones. AA contacted Boeing about purchasing the newer style. Boeing quote...
Jump to postI remember watching Baretta with my dad when I was little kid. Still can hear the theme song at the start of the show sung by Sammy Davis Jr in my head.
Jump to post"The Mexican government has acknowledged in the past that fentanyl is produced at labs in Mexico using precursor chemicals imported from China. Fentanyl has been blamed for about 70,000 opioid deaths per year in the United States ." Mexican president to US: Fentanyl is your problem https:...
Jump to postBut here is what they cannot hde from. This impending Dominion lawsuit is going to cost them, and their advertisers a lot of money and negative press. There will be no good way to spin that. For the folks that still want to beleive, they will find themselves more and more ostracized from family and...
Jump to postWay to go apologizing for a regime that has killed scores of people such as journalists, used chemical weapons on a foreign city, in the past year in Ukraine as estimated by independent investigations, 1000’s of executions, torture, kidnapping, especially children and that old favorite of theirs, m...
Jump to postThe damage is permanent for many, but I do think this dominion lawsuit is undermining fox's ability to control the story for many people. I want to agree with you. However, I don't think its going to have that much of an affect. At least with the average Fox News viewer. Your average Fox News viewe...
Jump to postAnd McCarthy has committed to "stick with her"... “If you’re going to be in a fight, you want Marjorie in your foxhole,” he told The New York Times. “When she picks a fight, she’s going to fight until the fight’s over. She reminds me of my friends from high school, that we’re going to sti...
Jump to postIt gets worse, Canada wanted to send Piranha 25, the APC version with the 25mm cannon, (Canada has been unusual in also sending brand new armoured vehicles, including their new 8 wheel one), guess who vetoed the 25mm cannon ammunition. I was wondering why the YPR tracked APC’s sent by the Netherlan...
Jump to postYou know what's going to come of this? Nothing, he has already proven he's above the law.
Jump to postIt gets worse, Canada wanted to send Piranha 25, the APC version with the 25mm cannon, (Canada has been unusual in also sending brand new armoured vehicles, including their new 8 wheel one), guess who vetoed the 25mm cannon ammunition. I was wondering why the YPR tracked APC’s sent by the Netherlan...
Jump to postWith a Gephard crew; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWJ97KcnmA Definitely a cool weapon system, and a generous donation from DE. Too bad it relies on Swiss ammo, not sure the problem was understood in advance or not. Laughed about having to reboot the computer if data input was not done correctly...
Jump to postWhat "conspiracy theories" in particular did Rittenhouse subscribe to? He worked in Kenosha and went there because the city was getting destroyed by looters and rioters. The conspiracy theorists were the ones causing the damage because they believed fake stories that Jacob Blake was unarm...
Jump to postThe attacker was not only from Canada, but here illegally. What I find interesting is that the usual suspects are not hyping up the illegal angle. I'm willing to bet money that if he had been from Mexico and his name ended in ez it would be the lead story on Fox News.
Jump to postA new ProPublica report chronicles how a DFW company, RealPage's YieldStar software, helps landlords raise prices for apartments across the U.S. https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/10/18/texas-company-raising-rents https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent Legal e...
Jump to postHe is a "chess player" in this game of unbelievable consequences. His next move is keeping me up at night. https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/29/2125988/-Why-some-analysts-believe-a-nuclear-strike-by-Russia-isn-t-just-possible-but-likely Nice article to ruin your sleep It's one thing t...
Jump to postI guess we might know soon what DeSantis does if a large number of Haitians and Cubans land on Key West. "Migrant boat sinks off of Florida during Hurricane Ian 23 missing" Turns out there were 7 survivors and 19 lost at sea" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-ian-23-missing-migr...
Jump to postWell we can continue to argue but it appears that Haiti is about to really boil over due to food riots and the breakdown of law and order. Hurricane Ian did a number on Cuba. If history is a guide, the boats will be on their way soon. Oh and a couple of thousand homes, trailers, and apartments in F...
Jump to postNo it is not, but its not just the right that are using immigrants as pawns. If you think so, then your eyes are shut. But, the non-political reason behind it is that the southern border communities are at a breaking point with the influx of immigrants that are released into their communities. See ...
Jump to postAssuming this is an actual picture and not photo shopped, it would appear Ukraine's SU-27 fleet has been fitted with HARM.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u ... es-now-too
When I was still working the passenger side of the business I lost count of the number of coffee makers I changed or re-racked.
Jump to postI'm sure Gov. DeSantis would applaud this "brave" substitute teacher for the inferences made in the homework assignment. Manatee school district to review controversial homework assignment Source: ABC7 News Sarasota I have to admit, its kind of slick. It doesn't come out and say anything ...
Jump to postI was at Miramar for a month or so that summer ('90), when VF-211 Checkmates and VF-24 Renegades had the A+ and VF-124 still had the A's. Worked on F110's (for the F-16N) and TF-30's for VF-124. The 110 was so much simpler and less cluttered (not to mention very clean) compared to the TF-30. As I r...
Jump to postLachlan Murdoch, as played by Jeremy Strong in Succession . (He hilariously really did see himself as a rap/Hip hop guru). He lied his way through the illegal phone hacking inquiry in 2011, which the vile company only had limited monetary cost due to a sympathetic government taking office in 2010 a...
Jump to postI was stationed at Miramar when the D first showed up in the fall of 1990. Actually I was working the weekend the first ones were delivered to VF-124. Saw them in the break, very cool. Later on I went over to the VF-124 FRAMP building across from the hangars where they had one parked. No leaks, not ...
Jump to postACDC8 wrote:Don't know why, but for some reason I'm envisioning this with that scene in the movie "Casino" with Joe Pesci hitting golf balls at the FBI plane
Looks like Steven Segal is giving his expert opinion on the conflict. Is there anything this man does not know?
https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/ ... kesperson/
The Ukrainians need the capability to clear the air space above the front lines of Russian combat aircraft, and suppress Russian SAM's. A-10's won't do that; a F-16 can. And once that happens, the Ukrainians can use the rest of their air force to directly attack Russian positions on the ground more...
Jump to postI think the idea of giving Ukraine A-10's to be quite ridiculous on many levels. Obviously the prospect of escalation being the main one. Then there's the fact you would be giving them an aircraft the UAF has never operated before. How effectively does anyone think the UAF would be able to employ i...
Jump to postHaven't been misled by no one. This is my own personal experience, family and friends. Don't need to see or hear something to actually know that we all are living through it. Had taken the shots, had COVID, saw all government and scientific actions and know by a lot how wrong all of them were on ma...
Jump to post"Mr. Kennedy is an esteemed author, with a long list of published books including the New York Times’ bestseller, “Crimes Against Nature.” Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. His re...
Jump to postLpbri wrote:I knew a few who got out of the military with only an A license or P license, based on experience
Gotta admire Rand, like him or hate him, on this subject he does have some consistency. 40B is a lot, and 40B that we have to borrow, and we are headed towards a recession, which might allow for the conversation of 'stimulus' and you know the amount of money we are to lose in revenue as a result as...
Jump to postThey were there, just airline policy not to use them (don’t know why). Wow, that's just mean. Seriously though, I'm guessing this was done to lessen the chances with over servicing the number two. If you're not careful that's exactly what will happen, especially with the IDG. Always a good idea to ...
Jump to postDL_Mech wrote:
There were remote servicing points inside the tailcone, but these were not used at my airline.
Boeing said to be moving HQ from Chicago to DC area likely Arlington Surprised it took such a short time to jump ship from Chicago. - Want to be closer to decision makers in Washington https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1522249818411872262?s=20&t=qtZzgRXu3SgdRVKOMvyDMQ https://www.wsj.com/arti...
Jump to postWhen your despicable plan is discovered. https://mobile.twitter.com/Acyn/status/1519712052247359489 Not nearly as despicable as allowing everyone to enter this country illegally with no questions asked simply because 7 out of 10 them will vote for you. It's sick actually. Question, after the Immigr...
Jump to postSen. Rand Paul on the Border: "If I were in charge, I'd put a helicopter station every five miles, and anybody who comes across would be immediately transported back," said Paul. "You don't get processed at all unless you come through legal ports of entry." https://www.newsmax.c...
Jump to postI guess Lockheed built a larger paint hangar at Palmdale, as later deliveries were assembled unpainted. 6309331 Not just the L-1011, If I’m not mistaken DC-8 and DC-9 fuselages were painted before final assembly. http://www.airlineratings.com/wp-content/uploads/uploads/DC-9s-at-peak-production.jpg ...
Jump to postFederal judge halts preparations for end of US asylum limit https://apnews.com/article/immigration-covid-business-health-honduras-54fe0c9655b72646a3c4bbf7c729fe11 A federal judge ordered a two-week halt Wednesday on the phasing out of pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum — and raised dou...
Jump to postWhere's John Belushi when you need him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_hCqO6UQs
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So, yes, MAGA Americans deserve a mainstream place to discuss ideas, away from the (virutal) echo chambers that dominate the rest of what's seen on TV...