Diminishing manufacturing resources – Boeing closes Wichita plant

Dire warning So goes manufacturing in America, so goes the economy. Job loss: 2, 160. As I have written before with authority, diminishing manufacturing resources poses two threats to national security: 1)...

Dopers at Boeing plant arrested

The Makers of Chinooks and Ospreys This isn’t good news. I hope that Boeing and the authorities purge their employment of these lawbreakers. Workers should lose their security clearances and be banned from...

Boeing pinning hopes on China

We all are Boeing can make a big dent in the balance of trade problem, selling planes to China. " “Boeing Designing New Planes With China In Mind By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Manufacturing.Net -...

Quiet progress: Boeing Hydrogen Airplane

I could have sworn long ago that I had read an article in Popular Science about a hydrogen airplane being flown across country by Lockheed in 1947. However, that notion is stuck in my mind without facts to back it...

Stress fractures in Boeing 737s

Commercial airlines and military aircraft receive very high use as designed. However, stress fractures from the constant expansion and contraction from changes in pressure during take-off, flight, and landings...

BIG SIS NOT TELLING WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT END OF MEXICO VIRTUAL FENCE

•  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the multibillion-dollar "Southern Border Initiative" didn't work right.  The likely real reason?  Obama officials discovered the Bush-era project incorporates an offensive weapon system that uses...

Boeing 787 Dreamliner No 2 Emergency Landing in Texas

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner Test Plane Had to Make an Emergency Landing in Laredo Texas According to the SeattleTimes, the pilot had to make an emergency landing after he smelled smoke in the cockpit.  About 30 to 40 people had to be evacuated using the emergency slides, but...

This can’t be good: Cockpit Fires

“Pilots have complained about heaters that burned, smoldered or sent electric currents dancing across cockpit windows since at least 2002” The FAA is on point and the person in charge when this happened first,...

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The shims are not up to snuff. I used to cut them from phenolic plastic when working in an aircraft factory as a college student. You have to pick the right material and it must be precision cut on a...

Tupolev 154: Plane That Was Carrying Lech Kaczynski and Officials

A Tupolev 154 (Tu-154) Has Been Identified As The Plane That Was Carrying the Polish President and Officials When They Were Killed A Tupolev 154 plane was carrying the Polish Presidnet Lech Kaczynski and around 95 others when it crashed in the forest outside of Smolensk...

Ethiopian airliner crashes with 90 people

An Ethopian airliner, boeing 737-800, crashed in Mediterranean sea just after take off from the Beriut. There were 90 people on board including eight crew members." The Boeing 737-800 disappeared off the radar...

Starbucks joins list of supporters of Referendum 71

Starbucks joins a list of supporters of Referendum 71 that include Microsoft, Boeing, and Nike. "Seattle-based caffeine cartel Starbucks gave its blessing this week to approve Referendum 71, thereby recognizing...

Lockheed Martin unveils "Peace Drive I" for Pakistan

Lockheed Martin has unveiled the first of 18 sophisticated multi-role F-16 combat jets for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Tuesday, October 13, at a ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth,...

Jose Mar Flores, Bolivian Priest, Behind Aeromexico Flight Hijack

It has been revealed that Jose Mar Flores, a Bolivian Priest, is the man behind the Aeromexico Flight 576 hijacking today. He claims he recieved divine inspriation, and was inspried to hijack the aeroplane because of the date 9-9-9 is the number 6-6-6 upside down. 666 is a...

Aeromexico Flight 576 Hijacked In Mexico City

Aeromexico Flight 576 with 112 passengers has been hijacked at the airport in Mexico City by unidentified hijackers. At least five people have been detained by Mexican authorities. All passengers have been released...

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