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  1. 17th October 2020, 07:56 AM #1
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    The latest quality control issue for the USA's largest planemaker, Boeing.

    Army Halts Apache Deliveries After Boeing Finds Improper Record-Keeping At Helicopter Factory - Defense One

    The U.S. Army has stopped accepting Apache helicopters from Boeing after the company found that an employee kept “improper” records concerning parts installed on the aircraft.
    It’s the latest quality-control issue to bedevil America’s largest planemaker, which is trying to shift its company’s culture and repair its public image after two deadly airliner crashes and a production line that left tools and trash inside new tanker aircraft.
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    In about 2000 Boeing acquired McDonnell-Douglas. This seems to have been a reverse takeover, with the McDonnell-Douglas management and corporate culture taking over. In 2001 the company HQ moved from Seattle (where they had built planes since 1916), to Chicago, and the entire management was gradually taken over by MBAs and the engineers moved out of management. As much technical work as possible was outsourced.

    With no long term career path at Boeing, the good engineers either left or did not even start. Their present situation is the inevitable result of this process.
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    John, that is exactly as it was explained to me by a pilot mate who flew in the USA for 13 years.
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