Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. So in one way the company is more American today than it has ever been.
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  2. Exactly why putting an embargo on chip companies is so stupid, in 10 or 15 years China will be making better chips than the west and in greater quantities because rather than letting them buy from the likes of Intel, AMSL and TSMC we're instead forcing them to develop an industry to rival it, and they will. Task 1,000 of China's best chemical engineers to figure out how the Dutch mastered their lithography techniques to build chip fabricators and within a year or two AMSL will have a Chinese competitor eating into it's market share and willing to sell to Russia, Iran and North Korea. The west seems to be run by idiots at the moment.
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  3. Glad they changed their name, I would never set foot on a plane made by a company called Boing.
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  4.  @atomic4650  By that same logic you could attribute Boeing solely to Washington state which has a tiny population compared to the European states that founded Airbus.
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  5. Also the first airliner (which introduced the modern era of high-altitude, jet-powered craft with pressurised cabins) was the Comet made by BOAC. Though if anything once it started crashing our short-lived, state-of-the-art plane became a symbol for American companies on how not to build an airliner.. 😉
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  6.  @bristoled93  What an utterly irrelevant comment.
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  7. Surprised they haven't moved wing production to an EU country to get around the new tariffs.
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  8.  @todortodorov940  The US is smaller than Europe, but you are correct about it having less developed rail routes.
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  9.  @ajmaeenmahtab8456  You don't need to see one to understand what a duck paddling with only one webbed foot would do.
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  10. Automation. When Airbus introduced it's fly-by-wire systems and computers in the late 80's Boeing called it a fad that would only make pilots lazier, except fast forward to the 21st century and all of these systems meant that Airbus planes were now regarded as the safest option because high pilot workload was often a large factor in plane crashes, now pilots had planes that could correct stalls without pilot input and could prevent pilots from attempting manoeuvres that could lead to airframe damage or stalls. Boeing eventually joined the party but by then half the market now belonged to Airbus. Case in point being the "Miracle on the Hudson", Captain Sullenberger was pulling too hard on the sidestick and that would have led to a tail strike landing possibly causing the plane to break up, instead the computers (knowing he was attempting a landing) ignored his input and kept the nose down to land belly first. Just one of countless times automation has overridden pilot input to save the plane.
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  11. The FAA and EASA have already did that, which was stupid of them since China is the largest market for Boeing and Airbus so as soon as Comac have ironed out all the teething problems you can expect to see China's state-run airlines being told to buy Chinese only.
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  12.  @todortodorov940  "Retard.. Retard.." is the callout.
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  13.  @deniseproxima2601  Because that is how competition works, the alternative is to lay down and let Comac dominate a market that Airbus currently controls (along side Boeing).
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