{"id":176736,"date":"2020-04-01T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/01\/boeing-cannot-make-anything-anymore-part-mmmdccxxiv\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:50:00","slug":"boeing-cannot-make-anything-anymore-part-mmmdccxxiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/01\/boeing-cannot-make-anything-anymore-part-mmmdccxxiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Cannot Make Anything Anymore, Part MMMDCCXXIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Boeing, the company that invented the airborne tanker, <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense-space\/aircraft-propulsion\/usaf-announces-new-major-deficiency-kc-46\">has mission critical fuel leaks on its new KC-46 tanker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, saved this issue 60 years ago, and now, after 25 years of stock buybacks, they can&#8217;t even prevent a fuel tanker from leaking fuel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The U.S. Air Force has upgraded an existing deficiency for the KC-46A Pegasus fuel system to Category 1.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The service\u2019s program office first identified \u201cexcessive fuel leaks\u201d in July after an air refueling test. The Air Force and Boeing are working together to determine the root cause and implement corrective actions. A Category 1 deficiency means the government has identified a risk that jeopardizes lives or critical assets.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe KC-46 Program Office continues to monitor the entire KC-46 fleet and is enhancing acceptance testing of the fuel system to identify potential leaks at the factory where they can be repaired prior to delivery,\u201d according to an Air Force statement.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every senior executive at the firm needs to be fired, including the board of directors, and stock buybacks need to be banned for the next 4 decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Boeing, the company that invented the airborne tanker, has mission critical fuel leaks on its new KC-46 tanker. Seriously, saved this issue 60 years ago, and now, after 25 years of stock buybacks, they can&#8217;t even prevent a fuel tanker from leaking fuel: The U.S. Air Force has upgraded an existing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,365,588,524,379,471],"class_list":["post-176736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-business","tag-fail","tag-manufacturing","tag-military","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}