Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "Mentour Now!" channel.

  1. I fly on 737s already.
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  2. It makes sense that Embraer would target B757 replacement.
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  3. Johnston
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  4. NASA didn’t use mixed units. A contractor used the wrong init and NASA didn’t catch it.
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  5. Right. It would be better to terminate the middle managers who screwed up the MAX. Only two executives were canned for that fiasco. Two more if you count Calhoun and the last executive of the Commercial Airplane Company.
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  6. They should accomodate US businesses. If they don’t, the businesses will fail and everything we use will come from China. The US Congress will have no influence over China.
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  7. The bolts which hold it in position seem to have been missing.
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  8. Ridiculous! That is not possible. Boeing will build what customers want, not what random people in YT comments want.
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  9. That’s as bad as driverless cars and trucks.
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  10. I think flying SWA is a bigger risk than flying on a MAX.
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  11. The recertified 737 MAX has had no crashes. It is a safe aircraft.
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  12. Accuracy does not depend on units. You should know that. Neither does precision. The quality of tools and the skill of the person using them are what matter.
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  13. Please don’t!
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  14. I hope you are joking.
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  15. If Boeing Commercial Aircraft fails, the space will not be filled by Airbus, but by Chinese aircraft. I don’t want that to happen. Calhoun was on the Boeing board at the time of the MAX crashes, when they were defending Muilenburg. I have no confidence in Calhoun’s business acumen.
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  16. I concur.
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  17. Most companies nowadays have a 401K instead of a traditional pension. I think Boeing has a 401K. You can't discuss this issue fairly without considering the whole approach to retirement at Boeing. In my industry we like 401K plans. We don't like traditional pension plans. A 401K is a portable pension. Traditional plans could go broke or be looted by the company. That's why portable pensions have replaced them.
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  18. The Tu 144 was not forced to take evasive action. The Mirage was not going to shoot it down or crash into it. The Tu pilots should have just ignored it. I think they were just showing off their plane, which is what they were there for.
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  19. His bio is on the Boeing website. He does not have a doctorate.
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  20. It is just too late to change.
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  21. Nobody copied the engine placement of the Comet.
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  22. It is still around because Boeing's customers wanted an upgrade instead of an entirely new aircraft. That has been known for a long time. It will stay around for awhile because there is a large backlog of orders.
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  23. If the war is settled sensibly, the aircraft will be returned, inspected, and recertified. If it develops into WW III, it won’t matter.
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  24. The early 737s did have a fatal defect which somehow escaped your (lack of) aeronautics knowledge.
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  25. Not likely.
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  26. Calhoun serves at the pleasure of the board. The board is the problem. Boeing had an incompetent board when the MAX crashes happened, and I doubt it is much better now. Calhoun was on that board.
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  27. The KC46 is a fine aircraft, based on the venerable 767. It just had some growing pains, which is not unusual.
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  28. It ought to be criminal to hide defects in airplane structures from the airplane maker or the FAA.
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  29. One almost did. Several people were injured.
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  30. The CEO is new. I'll give him a chance.
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  31. That is not very old for an airplane like this. It is clear it made an unusually hard touchdown.
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  32. Not exactly. The DoD does hold them accountable for problems with their products.
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  33. There shouldn’t be many English bolts on modern cars, because the US auto industry converted to Metric decades ago. What make still has English hardware? What year? What part? Don’t count spark plugs; tho nuts are always English, but take special sockets.
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  34. The pilots will only be talking to the investigators.
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  35. There always were two sensors. They only used one at a time.
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  36. Less reliable, far more expensive, and unnecessary.
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  37. She should stay at the Commercial Airplane division, though.
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  38. If Boeing were buried, Chinese planes would replace them. We would have no control over the building of Chinese planes. I want Boeing fixed, not buried.
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  39. They didn’t “get away” with it. They were found out and forced to fix it. The whole affair cost them dearly.
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  40. That’s wrong. Metric units were defined independently. In 1893, the United States adjusted US Customary units to be defined in terms of Metric units. In the 1950s they were adjysted again to unify US Customary with Imperial for linear measure and weight (mass).
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  41. You are right. But for an Airbus example, look at Qantas 72.
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  42. The problem has been fixed.
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  43. Remember, though, that the next CEO was Muilenburg, an engineer and Boeing lifer, who (mis)managed the MAX MCAS crisis.
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  44. I concur.
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  45. I changed planes once when a long hike and a train ride were necessary to get to the next gate. The crew for the 2nd plane knew how many passengers were making the connection and they were waiting for them. It was the same airline on both ends. One of the advantages of avoiding discount airlines.
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  46.  @tomstravels520 — I was referring to the yokes as compared to the side sticks. The throttles are the same for both types of planes. True, when operating the throttle, you must be able to hold the yoke with either hand, depending on the seat, but it still seems to me that operating a yoke with the dominant hand most of the time would be an advantage.
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  47. We (in the USA) have never used Imperial units, which were introduced in 1824.
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  48. Qantas 72 (A330) had three AoA sensors. Look it up. Three sensors are not required. All earlier 737s had two sensors. The reason there was never a similar problem is that AoA disagreement was benign because no automatic control inputs were made. An alert was displayed and the pilots could figure out which sensor was working.
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  49. I think the B707 was a graceful aircraft.
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  50. wrong
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