And now, as Paul Harvey would say, we know “The Rest Of The Story”.
After McDonnell-Douglas did their hostile takeover of Boeing under The One, they basically gutted its personnel roster and replaced practically every actual expert wit trust-fund babies in bespoke suits, mostly the sons/daughters/nephews/nieces etc. of McD-D bigwigs.
Then they DEI-hired anybody who checked a box on their POC/:LGBTQ+ submission to the Feds, regardless of qualifications or lack of same.
The most obvious result of this clusterfark was the 737 Max 8 debacle’. But it’s been a cascade failure throughout what used to be Boeing.
Word of G-d from forcibly retired engineers and managers is that the 2022 corporate HQ move from Chicago to Arlington VA was mainly to please the Democrats.
As for Commercial Aircraft Div at Renton WA, it’s basically a hollow shell now, as production is being shifted to St. Louis along with Boeing Defense Div to reduce costs.
And maybe, just maybe, get the KC-35 Pegasus in the air and operational sometime before it’s officially obsoleted by a blended wing body (BWB) low-RCS supertanker in the next twenty years.
Which ironically will probably be built by Airbus- in Texas.
Thought KC-46 was already the Pegasus, it is flying, and gradually replacing the KC-135’s. Picked up a couple on ADSB yesterday. ‘Course that doesn’t mean the rate of production is in worse shape than Chris’ bar above.
Yeah, I meant to type “46” but i miskeyed the line. Sorry.
We really need an ‘edit’ thing here.
cheers
eon
June 24, 2026 at 11:26 am
Oldarmourer
As a retired aircaft technician, it took up to two years of intense training after recruit school before the average airman got to hold tools on an operational unit. Boeing seems to have gone for the “hand them a wrench, they’ll figure it out” method and since the wrench turners can’t read a tech manual anyway, they generally figure it out that the best way is to go get stoned on a two hour lunch break and let their hands do what they want to…
Sadly, the military seems to be headed in the same direction…before long it’s going to be’down tools for an ass-in-the-air break’ five times a day, no looking up things in the TO’s since ‘allah’ will decide if it’s put together properly or not and you can’t change that…turbans getting sucked down intakes, kirpan duels over job assignments, there’s already reports of fights between different factions in recruit school, disrespect and outright assaults on female instructors, refusal to follow direction, and it’s only going to gete worse. I’m glad I served when there still was an Airforce instead of a place for international terrorists to hide behind a hatbadge. I’ll probably get a visit from CSIS just for this opinion, oh well the food in prison isn’t that bad, you get your own room and the cable never goes out.
It’s too late for us, save yourselves…if you still can.
That took a LOT longer to show up on the page than usual, guess that new Bill saying it’s a jailable offence to write ‘improper comments on social media’ covers comic strips too and the screeners don’t speak English all that well.
June 24, 2026 at 1:54 am
larryarnold
President Trump accepted a state-of-the-art AF-1 as a gift from Quatar, which will transport future presidents around the world, and he’s privately funding a ballroom that future administrations will host events in, instead of pitching tents on the White House lawn.
President Obama built a tennis court for his use, which last I heard is repurposed as a basketball court, and eminent-domained land to build a publicly funded (but not yet paid for) Borg prison disguised as a library.
And after building that tennis court, The One spent most of his time slouching on a sofa in the WH basement, sucking on a doobie and watching reruns of pro basketball games.
I genuinely believe that we were saved from even worse results from his eight years in the Oval Office than what we actually had simply due to his incredible laziness.
By comparison, Biden was the poster boy for “active/stupid” even before he lost his few remaining marbles around late 2019.
That Qatari ‘gift’ is only supposed to be in use until the ones currently on order finally showe up, they were supposed to be in service already but delays at the manufacturer, ie: nobody could spell AF-1, have them way behind and a replacement was needed now. The dems have been reduced to whining about the ‘red, white and blue’ colour scheme…if and when the yget back in office they’ll probably add a ‘rainbow’ stripe down the side…a rainbow the alphabet people are now claiming the Bible stole from them…you can’t make that up, but I wish it was.
The only Presidenial ‘Library’ with no books or papers in it..everything is digital and digits say whatever you want them to, depending on what the ID you had to show to get in suggests…I’ll warrant that no two people get to see the same ‘document’ the same way.
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And now, as Paul Harvey would say, we know “The Rest Of The Story”.
After McDonnell-Douglas did their hostile takeover of Boeing under The One, they basically gutted its personnel roster and replaced practically every actual expert wit trust-fund babies in bespoke suits, mostly the sons/daughters/nephews/nieces etc. of McD-D bigwigs.
Then they DEI-hired anybody who checked a box on their POC/:LGBTQ+ submission to the Feds, regardless of qualifications or lack of same.
The most obvious result of this clusterfark was the 737 Max 8 debacle’. But it’s been a cascade failure throughout what used to be Boeing.
Word of G-d from forcibly retired engineers and managers is that the 2022 corporate HQ move from Chicago to Arlington VA was mainly to please the Democrats.
As for Commercial Aircraft Div at Renton WA, it’s basically a hollow shell now, as production is being shifted to St. Louis along with Boeing Defense Div to reduce costs.
And maybe, just maybe, get the KC-35 Pegasus in the air and operational sometime before it’s officially obsoleted by a blended wing body (BWB) low-RCS supertanker in the next twenty years.
Which ironically will probably be built by Airbus- in Texas.
clear ether
eon
I hadn’t heard about BWB. (Infantry officer here, when USAF is overhead, we’re looking for cover.) Those look radical. Thanks.
Looks like they’re talking with a new guy, JetZero? Might as well build em here. Everybody else is moving to the Lone Star State.
Thought KC-46 was already the Pegasus, it is flying, and gradually replacing the KC-135’s. Picked up a couple on ADSB yesterday. ‘Course that doesn’t mean the rate of production is in worse shape than Chris’ bar above.
Yeah, I meant to type “46” but i miskeyed the line. Sorry.
We really need an ‘edit’ thing here.
cheers
eon
As a retired aircaft technician, it took up to two years of intense training after recruit school before the average airman got to hold tools on an operational unit. Boeing seems to have gone for the “hand them a wrench, they’ll figure it out” method and since the wrench turners can’t read a tech manual anyway, they generally figure it out that the best way is to go get stoned on a two hour lunch break and let their hands do what they want to…
Sadly, the military seems to be headed in the same direction…before long it’s going to be’down tools for an ass-in-the-air break’ five times a day, no looking up things in the TO’s since ‘allah’ will decide if it’s put together properly or not and you can’t change that…turbans getting sucked down intakes, kirpan duels over job assignments, there’s already reports of fights between different factions in recruit school, disrespect and outright assaults on female instructors, refusal to follow direction, and it’s only going to gete worse. I’m glad I served when there still was an Airforce instead of a place for international terrorists to hide behind a hatbadge. I’ll probably get a visit from CSIS just for this opinion, oh well the food in prison isn’t that bad, you get your own room and the cable never goes out.
It’s too late for us, save yourselves…if you still can.
That took a LOT longer to show up on the page than usual, guess that new Bill saying it’s a jailable offence to write ‘improper comments on social media’ covers comic strips too and the screeners don’t speak English all that well.
President Trump accepted a state-of-the-art AF-1 as a gift from Quatar, which will transport future presidents around the world, and he’s privately funding a ballroom that future administrations will host events in, instead of pitching tents on the White House lawn.
President Obama built a tennis court for his use, which last I heard is repurposed as a basketball court, and eminent-domained land to build a publicly funded (but not yet paid for) Borg prison disguised as a library.
Therefore, “President Trump is a tyrant.”
And after building that tennis court, The One spent most of his time slouching on a sofa in the WH basement, sucking on a doobie and watching reruns of pro basketball games.
I genuinely believe that we were saved from even worse results from his eight years in the Oval Office than what we actually had simply due to his incredible laziness.
By comparison, Biden was the poster boy for “active/stupid” even before he lost his few remaining marbles around late 2019.
clear ether
eon
That Qatari ‘gift’ is only supposed to be in use until the ones currently on order finally showe up, they were supposed to be in service already but delays at the manufacturer, ie: nobody could spell AF-1, have them way behind and a replacement was needed now. The dems have been reduced to whining about the ‘red, white and blue’ colour scheme…if and when the yget back in office they’ll probably add a ‘rainbow’ stripe down the side…a rainbow the alphabet people are now claiming the Bible stole from them…you can’t make that up, but I wish it was.
The only Presidenial ‘Library’ with no books or papers in it..everything is digital and digits say whatever you want them to, depending on what the ID you had to show to get in suggests…I’ll warrant that no two people get to see the same ‘document’ the same way.
I LOVE that plane! Good stuff. Thanks, Eon for the backstory.