Under Carbon, the 787 production jumped year over year from 2018 to 2019, according to the company’s first quarter earnings report. 36 787s were delivered in the first quarter of 2019 compared to 34 in the first quarter of 2018.
Article source: https://www.live5news.com/2019/05/22/boeing-sc-announces-change-leadership-operations-team/
By Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times
In his opening statement Wednesday at the House Aviation subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on the Boeing 737 Max, the lead Republican congressman blamed errors by the Indonesian and Ethiopian pilots for the two deadly Max crashes in those countries.
“Pilots trained in the United States would have successfully been able to handle” the emergencies on both jets, said Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri, ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He added that preliminary reports about the accident “compound my concerns about quality training standards in other countries.”
Graves was repeating the main points in a report written by two pilots at a major U.S. airline that pointed to pilot error as “the most consequential factor” in both crashes. Their report was commissioned and paid for by institutional investors with large holdings in Boeing stock.
That case for pilot error as the major cause of the crashes seems close to a surrogate for what Boeing has only hinted at and may be a key part of the manufacturer’s legal defense in liability lawsuits.
Yet two flight-simulator sessions replicating the conditions on the doomed flights contradict Graves’ contention that better-trained pilots would have escaped disaster. And
Article source: https://www.heraldnet.com/business/was-pilot-error-a-factor-in-the-boeing-737-max-crashes/
Thirty years ago, a BBC program called Tomorrow’s World captivated viewers with a seemingly simple demonstration: A blowtorch pointed directly at an egg. Its shell slowly blackens, but it neither cracks nor erupts in flames. “This is no ordinary egg,” warns presenter Peter Macann with a smile.
Macann explains that the egg has been coated in “a remarkable new plastic,” something that looks akin to a white, putty-like paste. Macann strolls to stage right to discuss fireproofing technology in airplanes, and after three minutes, he returns to see what’s come of the egg. Where it was exposed to the flame, the white coating has charred and crusted over, but the egg otherwise appears untouched. “[The egg] hasn’t broken up at all, and you can see here it’s glowing red hot,” Macann explains.
He then turns the blowtorch off, picks up the egg with his bare hand, and cracks it over a glass bowl. It appears as raw as any fresh egg, runny yolk and all.
Broadcast in 1990, this episode of Tomorrow’s World catapulted this mysterious white coating, a super-fire-retardant material dubbed Starlite, into the international spotlight. But 20 years later, its secretive inventor died, supposedly without ever sharing his formula. Now, students at UC Merced are joining the ranks of enthusiasts around the world trying to recreate it. “Just figuring out how to make things work when everything’s kind of against you, I think that’s what I like most about this project,” says undergraduate engineering student Moataz Dahabra.
The inventor, Maurice
Article source: https://www.kvpr.org/post/miracle-or-hoax-uc-merced-students-attempt-recreate-remarkable-mysterious-starlite-material
Everyone these days shops on Amazon, no matter if for personal or business reasons. You like the ease of use, the selection, guidance, the few clicks it requires to order, the shipment options, and returns policy. Come to think of it, what don’t you like about this experience? I feel hard-pressed to come up with anything and the next big online shopping day (Memorial Day) is just around the corner.
And this is the problem for most B2B eCommerce instances out there. A Google study found that about half of B2B shoppers are millennials and they expect such sophistication right out of the gate and all the time. They are also increasingly doing their work on a mobile device. It does not matter if a firm facilitates the sale, shipment, or service of medical equipment, automotive spare parts, liquids, electronics, or stationery. Nowadays, we equate every experience online with our trip to the Amazon app.
The question then becomes: Can your company do eCommerce like Amazon to create a sizeable core or aftermarket business? Will you be the Amazon in your sector or be relegated to history like the dinosaurs?
It took Amazon some time to perfect its model but once you realize its level of digital integration across the supply chain, it becomes a near-unreachable standard. It is uncanny how it deploys new products quickly, manipulates demand (e.g., “only 1 left”), understands sales performance within hours, and later sifts through
Article source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanzoder/2019/05/21/are-you-the-next-amazon-or-t-rex/
When Boeing decided to wrap up production of the Boeing 757 and 767, they had a rather ambitious idea. A giant aircraft that would fly 20% faster than a normal jet airliner, but still have all the advantages of size and noise planes of the day enjoyed. It was called the Boeing Sonic Cruiser.
Back at the turn of the millennium, Boeing was scrambling. Their popular line of Boeing 747s and 767s were starting to slow down in sales, and rival Airbus had just announced a truly ambitious and forward-thinking design… the A380.
Boeing needed a win; a new aircraft that was clever, high-tech and would reassert Boeing as having no equal in the aerospace industry. Boeing looked at the airline industry and saw two clear trends.
The first was the evolution of a true worldwide hub and spoke model airline (like Emirates), with huge A380-like aircraft shuttling passengers between different hubs before traveling onward on smaller aircraft (Canberra – Sydney – Dubai – London – Manchester for example)
The second model was point to point travel. Instead of traveling between hubs, why not fly directly to your intended destination on a smaller and faster plane (such as Boston to Manchester)?
Boeing saw the latter as the way of the future, and developed an aircraft that could quickly beat
Article source: https://simpleflying.com/boeing-sonic-cruiser/
A Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane being built for India-based Jet Airways lands following a test flight, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at Boeing Field in Seattle. Flight test and other non-passenger-bearing flights of the plane continue in the Seattle area
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Topline: Boeing has finished fixing a software system in its grounded 737 MAX airplane that’s been implicated in two deadly crashes, the company said Thursday. The FAA still has to certify the update before the plane can return to the air.
Background: All 371 Boeing 737 MAX planes were grounded worldwide in March following the crash of a model of the plane flown by Ethiopian Airlines, which came five months after a similar crash of a Lion Air jet in Indonesia. The accidents claimed 346 lives. Investigators are focusing on design flaws in a component of the plane’s automated flight controls called the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system, or MCAS.
Article source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/05/16/boeing-says-it-has-fixed-software-in-grounded-737-max-airplane/
Brooklyn’s biggest park has a new two-mile loop trail and more than 7,000 new native trees and shrubs.
On Sunday, State Assemblymember Jaime Williams, officials from the city Parks Department and three conservancy groups celebrated the completion of a four-year fix-up at 798-acre Marine Park.
Marine Park, which is nearly as large as Manhattan’s Central Park, holds ecological significance in part because of its coastal maritime forests, which are a habitat for migrating birds.
The opening of the new trail is “a real milestone for this park,” said First Deputy Parks Commissioner Liam Kavanagh at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Alex Zablocki, executive director of Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, called it “the jewel of New York City.”
Zablocki’s organization collaborated with the Natural Areas Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy and the Parks Department on the now-completed Marine Park improvement effort. Visitors can access the new loop by entering the park from Gerritsen and Seba
Article source: https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/05/20/a-new-trail-shows-off-marine-parks-wild-side/
