“crack in the fuselage” and “safe to fly” don’t belong in the same sentence. How can a plane that costs so much and took so long to engineer and build by a company like Boeing require repairs? What happened to quality control? Boeing used to be the gold standard of aircraft. Now it’s buckling to the demand to make planes that are less expensive to operate by using new materials that apparently haven’t been sufficiently tested. A “laminate” on a tail section? There are some things that shouldn’t be screwed with and aircraft construction is one of them.
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“crack in the fuselage” and “safe to fly” don’t belong in the same sentence. How can a plane that costs so much and took so long to engineer and build by a company like Boeing require repairs? What happened to quality control? Boeing used to be the gold standard of aircraft. Now it’s buckling to the demand to make planes that are less expensive to operate by using new materials that apparently haven’t been sufficiently tested. A “laminate” on a tail section? There are some things that shouldn’t be screwed with and aircraft construction is one of them.
Jester, keep your day job if you have one.
” There are some things that shouldn’t be screwed with and aircraft construction is one of them.”
Change is always risky. But without change, there is no advancement. I suppose we should still be flying biplanes?