Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
Dean, a former quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems and a whistleblower who alleged Spirit ignored manufacturing defects, has died after a sudden illness.
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Who knew the commercial aerospace industry was a Mafia. I thought that only applied to the military side of things.
Boeing hasn’t been Boeing since it merged with McDonnell Douglas about 27 years ago.
How many American companies are left? There used to be a dozen of them around WW2.
For commercial aviation, literally just Boeing. And then Europe has Airbus. The aviation industry really is a fantastic example of how capitalism works.
Remember how they used to get full course meals in flights? Now we’re packed like sardines and we get a bag of peanuts and a coke.
I'm not old enough to remember that. Weren't tickets much more expensive back then though? I was under impression that both prices and standards fell. Regardless, that's an airline carrier issue that has little to do with Boeing.
This is more of a feels comment lol, I just looked into it and yeah tickets used to be about 10x as expensive
So you can still get a really good experience now but yeah it's going to be 10x more expensive as well lol
On US airlines it’s only half a coke unless you ask for the full can
Tendency towards monopoly in action.
Be lucky you don’t live in communist china where Xi Jinping personally owns every company and dives into a large pool of money every morning
That list where Stalin was the richest person in history for having the entire production capacity of the USSR at his fingertips but it’s Xi with china
Scrooge McDuck style.
Boeing is both. And it needs commercial aviation for profit and camouflage for the other side.
Makes sense. I loathe the MIC.
I remember reading about how an aerospace Company who installed some navigational tech inside Air Force 1 also sold the same tech to the Russians lol. Supposedly they got fined but are still doing business with the US government in security. Don’t remember which company though
I know what you're talking about, one of the ones Northrop Grumman bought up.
Here's the natopedia summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman#International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations_(ITAR)_violations