Today’s key stories about Boeing focus on the senate hearings with a new whistleblower and CEO Dave Calhoun. an IP lawsuit, the CEO search, and fake titanium. Calhoun appeared before the Senate hearings and apologized to the families of MAX…
The future of the MAX7 and MAX10 programs
Who's going to blink first - Boeing or Congress?
Boeing’s CEO David Calhoun is playing poker with the US Congress. He spoke yesterday about the potential certification issues with the MAX10 and for the first time indicated that Boeing might walk away from that program should Congress not provide…
(Co-authored with Timothy O’Neil-Dunne) Lost in the pandemic was a pause in an ongoing epidemic of almost Biblical proportions. We are talking about the US practice of bluffing true flight times AKA schedule padding. With the resurgence of planes in…
The New York Times published an intriguing article yesterday that spoke about Boeing and the aerospace industry lobbying with Congress to pass a law that undercut the FAA’s capability to review Boeing’s work. Apparently the bill, passed last year, restricts…