• @[email protected]
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    2111 months ago

    The 737 design has reached its max (heh) potential. There’s no more milk to squeeze out from this cow. Boeing has to bite the bullet and design a new plane from the ground up. Surely those billions in tax payer funded military contracts can be invested in R&D.

  • @[email protected]
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    2011 months ago

    4 years later around 150 new airplanes are still sitting on the tarmac as the crews fix around 6-7 per month.

    It’s pretty bizarre to drive past where they store/repair them in Moses Lake and see them all.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      311 months ago

      Didn’t know, are they planes that never sold? Or were grounded? Or just don’t have the resources to repair them?

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        Mostly still grounded planes in need of repair.

        There are a few planes that were ordered by Russia and Ukraine that can not be delivered due to the war. There are also a few planes that are unsold.

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    1211 months ago

    Not to be the Ackchyually guy here but producing aircrafts unfit for flying already emits a lot of greenhouse gases.

    • @cactus
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      1211 months ago

      Not to be the ackshually akshually guy but it says “since march 2019”