Boeing's New No-Drama 737 Jetliner Is Ready for Its Public Debut

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I am a staunch supporter of an American Company, started by an American, employer of tens of thousands of skilled Americans. imp

"After snags on other models, Max quietly meets a deadline
Planemaker can't afford delays on latest version of cash cow"


"Boeing Co.’s latest 737 airliner is gliding through development with little notice, and that may be the plane’s strongest selling point.
Even the customary fanfare accompanying a new plane’s public debut has been muted. While the 737 Max’s rollout is being celebrated Tuesday in private ceremonies outside Seattle, the first plane actually slipped out of a Boeing factory to the paint shop on Nov. 30, meeting to the day a timeline set four years ago.
“It’s saying to the world: ‘We’re back,’ ” said George Hamlin, a former aerospace and airline executive who is now president of Hamlin Transportation Consulting. “It’s a marker to say, ‘We’re back to where we can meet our internal schedule and get development done economically and efficiently.’ ”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...eady-for-its-public-debut?cmpid=yhoo.headline

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Note the name of the airplane!
 

I get a couple of different airline magazine type news booklets in the mail maybe each quarter. I never really paid attention to what the time period was or is. I remember reading about this B-737 and how much more efficient it was supposed to be, which in turn will save the airlines a lot of money and in time will help pay for itself. Like the article states, "the single aisle planes are the workhorse of the industry," or something like that. When I flew for United, I started out flying a B-737-200 series making the short 2-3 hour trips. A pilot can gain a lot of experience this way and also assure himself of being home most nights, but if course, there are those exceptions to that rule. The U.S.'s major user of this plane is Southwest Airlines, whose entire fleet are B-737's.

After flying the B-737 for 9 years, I bumped up to the B-757, then the B-767 and finally the B-747 and really enjoyed the B-767 more, so I went back to flying that plane and stayed with it for most of my career. Each step up requires attaining a "rating" or what a layman would call a certification. To attain a rating, the pilot needs to put in a lot of hours in a simulator with an instructor and then fly the plane with an experienced pilot of that particular plane for even more hours before being rated for that plane. It''s a process that takes time and a lot of effort, but is definitely worthwhile and the pilot is rewarded well.

Airplanes are becoming more and more sophisticated as new technology is discovered and then put into service. Just in that last few years since I have retired, I have seen some major changes in engineering, training and the use of technology. If I would have stayed working, I would have loved to have been given the opportunity to fly a B-787 Dreamliner over the pond. I retired as a Senior Captain and am proud to have worked for United, although we did have some struggles at times.

Check out the pictures and the avionics in the cockpit. http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...rolls-out-first-737-max-spirit-of-renton.html
 
Sorry but:
The agreements include orders and commitments for 300 Boeing narrowbody and widebody aircrafts; a plan for a new facility in China for the interiors completion, paint and delivery of Boeing 737 aircraft to Chinese customers; and expanded collaboration between Boeing and China's commercial aviation industry.
Today, more than 50 percent of the commercial jetliners operating in China are Boeing airplanes. At the same time, more than 8,000 Boeing airplanes fly throughout the world with parts and assemblies built by China. China has a role on every one of Boeing’s commercial airplane models — 737, 747, 767, 777, and the newest and most innovative airplane, the 787 Dreamliner.

http://www.boeing.com/resources/boe...oeing-international/pdf/chinabackgrounder.pdf

 

The key is "parts and assemblies", Davey. To build competitively, outsourcing must be done overseas. I have no problem with it. Remains fact that Boeing puts their airplanes together in America. They have not moved their corporate operations overseas as have so many others. imp
 
I have two acquaintances from when I worked for United and when I would speak with them re: technical issues I remember both of them telling me that the wiring harnesses, which are several miles long, are manufactured in China and some of the avionics, which are/were contracted to GE and other companies. From there, who knows where the contracts go? However, like imp said, the last that I knew the the plane itself from the hull to the tail, including the fuselage are all assembled here in the good old U.S. of A. (Not sure about the military planes, but I would imagine the same would go for those as well.)
 
imp said:
The key is "parts and assemblies", Davey. To build competitively, outsourcing must be done overseas. I have no problem with it. Remains fact that Boeing puts their airplanes together in America. They have not moved their corporate operations overseas as have so many others. imp
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Sort of like the cars with 'parts manufactured in' but 'assembled in'
 
WhatInThe said:
Sort of like the cars with 'parts manufactured in' but 'assembled in'
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I've learned what the politicians meant 20, 30 years ago talking about "global economy", back when America built what it needed and used. Then Bill Clinton levered for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which as I understood it, provided for easier access to American commerce by Mexican transportation, mostly trucking. The trucks cost the same to operate, but the drivers are undoubtedly much lower paid than here. Then, too, nay-sayers predicted lack of compliance needed with ICC regulations would result in unsafe trucks driving our highways. Don't think that has happened.

What did happen is cheaper cost for U. S. commercial businesses to have product made in Mexico then shipped here. The global economy has been implemented, and it benefitted Europe a lot, Mexico, and others, but us, not much. imp
 

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