Showing posts with label Boeing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boeing. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2025

It's safe until it isn't

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Hundreds feared dead after Air India jet crashes after takeoff
Monday, May 12, 2025

Rag-headed heathen bastard King of Qatar to award Mad King Ludwig of America lavishly appointed $400 million 747-8 jumbo jet to use as Air Force One until Boeing gets its act together

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  Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources Trump poised to accept Qatar jet...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Trump's tariffs mean that the skies will be empty, along with the shelves

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 Boeing hopes to find new buyers for up to 50 planes returned by China ... Two Boeing jets have returned to the US from China , with anothe...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Well, that one on the right for sure

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Monday, March 11, 2024

DEI: Duck Everybody, Immediately

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  50 People Injured After BOEING 787 Hit With Mid-Flight 'Technical Event'...
Monday, January 8, 2024

First it was a window which blew out, then it became a section, now it's a panel, but it will never be a door, which is what it really was

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  Boeing shares tumble after panel blows out, FAA grounds 737 Maxes    
Saturday, January 6, 2024

When you asked for a window on your model but got the door anyway

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Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 for checks after window blows out in midair Reportedly a boy lost his shirt out the "window...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Why I won't fly, 2023 edition

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  Boeing urges inspections of 737 Max planes for ‘possible loose bolt’ And they say I'm the one with a screw loose.
Friday, November 17, 2023

Titans of American business pay to have dinner with genocidal dictator Xi Jinping

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Elon Musk was there, too, but this story never mentions it: Xi’s 10 years as president are marked by a genocide against China’s Muslim min...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

The Chicoms might as well be at war with Australia

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Defense Minister Richard Marles said the Chinese J-16 flew very close to the   Australia n plane and released flares and chaff that were ing...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is muting expectations for 2020 GDP growth as Wall Street predicts a pathetic 1.8%

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“I think our projections have been reduced because of Boeing and other impacts,” he told the Fox Business Network from the White House. “...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Libertarianism kills: Boeing outsourced 737 Max software to $9/hour programmers from India to save money

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Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers : It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Trump flips on Ex-Im Bank

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Reported here : His budget chief Mick Mulvaney said on CNBC (transcript via  Reason ) Wednesday that Trump was now pro-Ex-Im, and the p...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Obama hollowed out the military and SECDEF Mattis wants to keep those responsible in place at DOD

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Kimberley Strassel delivers the bad news here : President Trump promised to rebuild our hollowed-out military, a cause as urgent as an...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Does anyone really know what is the level of stock buybacks?

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The LA Times reported yesterday  here  that the level was $598 billion in 2013. But The Washington Post reported last December  here  that i...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Lost For Three Weeks, Malaysian Flight 370 May Join 83 Other Disappearances Since WWII

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Bloomberg has a good graphic here of aircraft which have simply vanished in the post-war, about 1.2 per year on average. Wikipedia now has ...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Malaysia Still Can't Find Boeing 777 Missing For 5 Days

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Amazing. Maybe they should start looking on the ground, like in Pakistan.
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Why Won't Obama Use This Super Tanker To Fight Colorado Fires?

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Read the story, here , about why this Boeing 747 supertanker just sits on the ground in Arizona while Colorado goes up in smoke.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Jeffrey Goldberg Likes One Thing About Newt Gingrich

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He wants to go "out there": All at once, the passengers contorted themselves to get a view out of the starboard windows. And there...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

FORD = Fascist Obama Reelection Debacle

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FORD Wimps Out Again, Pulls Anti-Bailout Ad After White House Intimidation And Daniel Howes for The Detroit News sums it up this way, here :...