Life span of an HP Calculator

[Geoff Quickfall]

(09-13-2024 04:48 PM)KeithB Wrote:  *Cough*Boeing*Cough*

Hi Keith!

Just a note, having flown 3 generations of Boeings over 35 years from the B737-200 (analog) to the Dreamliner 787 (fly by wire, composite and digital) there is a pilot perspective.

Here we have a mix of marketing, engineering, cheap pilot training, insurance and country rules.

1) Marketing:

- Sell aircraft.

2) Engineering

- Build aircraft

3) Airline

- Cost savings
- Which package to buy.
- training, what is the minimal cost you can get away with.

4) Insurance

- 2 billion dollar cost if you write off a B777 with 400 people on board.

5) Country regulations

- (who is in bed with whom?)


So with those 5 points above,

pm me

and I will let you know what happened with Lion Air and Ethiopian MAX aircraft. Both of which were models purchased at the lower end of the model line with respect to redundancy.

New tech with Boeing versus Airbus and how, with HP, new tech has design flaws which can be mitigated with the correct training and etc.

Cheers, Geoff

Just for a teaser, there was a mia culpa on the MAX debacle due to Marketing versus what was actually wrong with, not the airplane but…