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Offline rangerrebew

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Boeing Woes Also Infecting Military Aviation
« on: May 10, 2024, 12:58:24 pm »
Boeing Woes Also Infecting Military Aviation
By AFP Staff
May 9, 2024
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The failures at Boeing, by design in our opinion, have reached military aviation. The following memo from Boeing to the U.S. Army is being circulated.


Shoe writes, "In light of all the news about Boeing, defective parts, and whistleblowers dying, someone sent me this memo sent from Boeing to the Army, and it’s shocking. The Army just had another Apache crash two days ago on Fort Riley. We don’t know the cause of the crash, but we do know there have been AT LEAST two catastrophic tail rotor failures over the last two years. This memo says from 2019 to 2024 there have been defective tail rotor blades coming from the manufacturer. Over 4000 of them. These blades have been in use and installed fleet wide and are not reaching their expected service life of approximately 6600 hours. Many not even close to that at all. The Army and Boeing have been good about keeping this all hush hush. Are these crashes due to tail rotor blade failures? One was a 64E at Rucker in June 2022, the other was a 64D at Bliss November 2023. 3 of the 4 crew members were able to walk away, while the 4th will not fly again due to back issues. Because no one died, it’s easier to keep these incidents on the down low. In a perfect world, the whole fleet would be grounded until this was sorted out, but that’s never going to happen."

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Re: Boeing Woes Also Infecting Military Aviation
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2024, 01:10:58 pm »
My nephew is a manager for Boeing in SC.

 Boeing is under so much stock holder pressure to make ever increasing profits and pay dividends they are cutting corners and it is coming back to bite them.

This trend is what is happening  to most corporation across the country. Ceo have a small base pay but their real pay is more and more based upon payment in stocks and bonuses and they are pushing to employees, lower level management and their subcontractors and vendors to the extreme to maximize profits.

Then the subcontractors and vendors are forced to do the same thing. It is a vicious cycle. Not just ceo's.  Boards of these companies are under so much pressure for profits  and if it does not happen they will get replaced.
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