Comments by "John P" (@johnp139) on "Boeing Faces Financial Ruin As Disasters Mount" video.

  1. That’s because the FAA doesn’t have enough engineers to do the job themselves. Thank you Ronald Regan.
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  2. There is no such thing.
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  3. The ACQUISITION STRATEGY determines if the contract will be FFP or Cost Plus, the contractors do not propose one or the other.
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  4. Airbus (actually NG with Airbus A-330 variants) ALSO submitted a FFP proposal for the KC-X, only they didn’t get the contract.
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  5. It has to be TSOed and certified for flight. You can’t just go to Costco and buy a bunch of generic ones.
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  6. It’s still much safer than driving. Are you never driving again?
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  7. New technology that uses 3D cameras for the AROs. Unexpected problems that were only discovered during the flight tests. Not to mention that the aircraft was almost totally redesigned and is nothing like legacy 767s.
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  8. No, it is hydraulic.
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  9. They had hoped to be able to sell this updated aircraft (767-2C) as a cargo aircraft, but that never really got off the ground, probably due to using old engines.
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  10.  @thrillamoe50 What? Do you mean “lost”? They are CONTRACTS, so it would be expensive for the government to cancel them. Also, Boeing did not bid on the E-4 recapitalization program, probably because they have lost billions on other FFP contracts.
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  11. Hard to drive overseas.
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  12. What is “learnt”? Do you mean “learned”?
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