As a lowly private pilot I appreciate so much what you do. I don’t know how you have time for this. The amount of work that you do and your knowledge base few people know m. You do such a great job explaining things to folks that have no knowledge of airplane subjects. thank you very much always informative, educational and entertaining

Thanks for this informative and yet nauseatingly familiar management story. Jack Welch, known by many with the moniker “Neutron Jack” for his short-sighted policies, was a demigod to executives all over the USA.

"hunter killer assassins"...

Jack Welch was a nazi

Love your videos so far. Your Malaysia 370 vid is the best out there

All one has to know if the CEO is retiring is former Blackrock COO and is a accountant. Till the dynamics change for all their senior posting change from that to engineers again we can expect nothing but death out of Boeing.

MCAS is an " Engineering Blunder." Locking an AOA sensor vane to the input shaft with only a setscrew, and no splines or keys is idiotic. Using software to do the job of hardware or as the solution to " everything " is delusional.

People...the people in this country ... something really wrong!

Dopen is Dutch for "to dunk something (or even someone in religious context) in liquid."

My dad worked at Douglas in LB for 31 years! He finished by running the C-17 program. They were a great company and the day Boeing took over was the last day my father worked there. Mercedes know owns the last building on Lakewood Blvd in Long Beach but the old Fly Douglas Jets emblem was still kept on that building last time I drove past there 10 years ago.

If we haven't subscribed already, how could we not subscribe after the way he gestured us to subscribe lol

A home inspection by the vendor? Why? What happens if you present a survey that misses a defect. Does that leave you open to misrepresentation. Better in my opininion to allow reasonable access for a potential buyer to carry out their own survey.

Boeing also complicit in the Palestinian genocide, providing israel with weapons that are killing children

Slap two of these on an A350 and you’ve got yourself a lean, mean, long range flying machine

Great video

In a capitalist system companies like these are left to die naturally

Why isn’t it happening? Simple, Boeing is a woke company with DEI hires. Boeing can’t engineer a paper sack much less a totally new plane.

I don't know who it was that first said "Your people are your greatest asset", but it holds true. Any company that forgets this maxim is on borrowed time.

That's crazy though how they didn't think about making the cockpit water proof.

American Aviation can now join the American Automotive Industry as broken oligarchy that is only kept afloat by government subsidies.

Not really sure what to say. I think your video pretty much summed up what I've seen, but it is a darn shame that it unfolded how it did.

I never like videos, but that face made me do it... 😂

What does a kitchen table have to do with flying an airplane ? That doesn't make much sense to me.

Outstanding discussion of Boeing's downfall. I was a Mechanical Engineer starting in 1970 at McDonnell Douglas (MD), and ending in 2013 at Northrop Grumman (NG). I also worked at Continental Airlines for several years in the middle of my career. During the years at NG, I watched Harry Stonecipher destroy companies one by one. Not mentioned in your video was his time at Sundstrand, the company who made most accessory gearboxes, and other power control and management systems on aircraft all over the world. He decided Sundstrand would STOP all research and development on new aircraft designs and concentrate solely on their gearbox overhaul business. That was a very short sighted decision because eventually you will have no gearboxes on aircraft to overhaul, and that is exactly what started to happen. They lost new business to other companies like Parker Aerospace. Sundstrand had to lay off most of their very experienced and talented engineering staff and eventually Harry would effect a sale to Hamilton Standard to become Hamilton Sundstrand. Stonecipher would then move to the MD/Boeing merger and start destroying Boeing. Long time Boeing engineers that had known for years were devastated with many of them leaving for other companies. Of course it wasn't just Harry that caused the downfall as you point out in your video, but I felt he was more responsible for the problems than your video implies. Thank you for the video. I am now retired grandfather, and every day is Saturday!

Enough with the rambling discussion and pregnant points just to milk KZbin cash. No one has time. Never mind.

Just dont look up.

I've been a subscriber to your videos for some time now, and have always found them to be first rate. This, however, is a landmark video. It stands so far above anything I have ever seen that I can't really put a classification on it. You have put a corporate history into perspective in a way no one else I've ever seen has done. I just turned 70, and a whole lot of my aerospace career (including 10 years at FAA) has been involved with Boeing. You've completely revised my perspective on the company, and my experiences with it, all in one eye-opening, and really amazingly well done video. I'll make this as well known in my circles as possible, and in the mean time just express my admiration for your abilities, and my thanks for your wonderful work.

Fuck "Better help"

Boeing 🤙🏻

Most confusing airport I've ever been to. And I've been all over europe.

I am 100% USA except when it comes to commercial aircraft. I’m now Air Bus as much as possible… I’ll change flights on AA to avoid a newer B-737 in favor of a A-321…. And the seats are more comfortable too. My first flight was on a B-707 and then B-727. I didn’t care for the narrow DC-9/MD-80 and looked forward to flights on the early B-737. Even the 2nd and 3rd generation 737’s. But since the 737 Max, Please give me an A-319/320 or especially the A-321

2nd whistle-blower 💀it anit no accident.

Boeing has become a bloated, DEI-driven, disorganized shadow of it's former self. I was a big cheerleader of theirs, but now they get everything they deserve.

*BOEING GOT FvCKED BY DEI* lol didn't earn it

Better Help's a scam - as soon as I saw ad, stopped watching

Apart from all the shenanigans going on at the executive level McDonnell Douglas sweetened the merger by cutting the medical benefits for McD retirees. So on top of everything else you had people with vastly different retirement benefits working next to each other.

From Brazil: amazing how Embraer is still viewd as a reginal player. The E2 series avionics is significantly better than the competition, just count how many Bombardier jets operates in US airlines. The all-new military cargo KC-390 has the most orders of Arabic countries than any other aircraft. This very week, Embraer's CEO said they could think of design a long haul jet. And according to United Airlines CEO they are much more reliable on the delivery of planes than Boing. My bet is on Embraer

Boeing whistleblowers have started to conveniently die..... Two down - ten to go......!!!!!

The company my father used to work for in Sudán, África had one of these built in 1943, flew on it from 1979 to 1982, great plane.

Don't ask about the number of shims needed because none of the parts fit. What happens when you try to do Half CAD and Half Reference Engineering Drawing.

Boeing jumped headfirst in to the mud

4 months later, I bet your opinion has shifted

23:33 What does Petter mean about what happened to the A380?

0:10 that plane has been modified to land on gravel runways (in Nunavit, Alaska e.g.), note the "kit" fitted under the engine intakes (mentioned at 2:29).

The Dash 80 was not the big risk as presented; those funds would have gone as excess war profits tax.

Where are Embraer, Bombardier, Dassault, Saab et al in all of this airframe turmoil? Is there room for a stealth attack by one of the smaller aircraft manufacturers into the Airbus/Boeing market?

That dumbass got off scot-free by some Spanish court, and the judge was all like, "Well, since there wasn't any actual explosive, we can't really say it was a legit threat." No fine, no nothing. And the kicker? They didn't even make him cough up any cash for all the chaos he caused, with those hornets scrambled to intercept! But seriously, in cases like this, I'm all for laying down the law hard. There shouldn't be any leniency for folks messing around like that. They need to learn that messing with law enforcement ain't no joke. They should be slapped with some serious punishment to send a clear message that fooling around with folks trying to keep society safe will come back to bite you in the rear, big time.

Don’t blame Welch or all the other high level executives of public companies which are killing innovation by managing quarter to quarter. Blame their remuneration structures which mainly rely on stock options for all top management and board directors. Nothing will change until that does.

If your company is unsustainable, your legacy will be dust. That would be obvious to anyone with half a brain. You can only conclude that Welsh, Stonecipher et. al. were absolutely fine with this as long as they got their bonus checks. The world needs more engineer and pilot managers.

I feel that the "good for business" models are the bane of our world today. I remember being in a book club reading "The Goal" and the discussion around "the primary point of a business is to make money". I disagree with that. Yes, making money is *necessary*, but if that's the goal, you will, I think, ultimately fail. Because if all you do is "make money" you actually provide no value at all. Money, ironically, lacks value. Quality products and services that benefit people - that is what brings true, enduring success. But Wall Street disagrees, and we have given them the keys. 😕