Chinooks Sabotaged at Factory

[Flash]

Hadn't seen this story here yet, thought it might be of interest. Probably just some moron angry at the world.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_re_us/boeing_shutdown_chinook

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iHdCjTtUov_LjYC5YwjuFyZ9AcVwD90PFTQ81

 

[feddoc]

Wow, that makes no sense to do something like that.

 

[BlackBearHockey]

There was a very nice write-up about it in Sunday's Inquirer:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/19049009.html

The article talks to the strength of the Boeing working community and tells about the people who build the aircraft. Pretty interesting read.

 

[SemperGumbi]

We had a bunch of Boeing and former Boeing workers tour our working area and get a brief about the Growler a few weeks back. I was one of the "tour guides." They have a TON of pride in their work. That makes an impression, to say the least.

 

[Stearmann4]

They have a TON of pride in their work.

Let's just say the Boeing people that work in Phillie, are not exactly the Boeing people that work in Seattle, and Everett. Also, Boeing employees consist of alot of McDonnel Douglas, guys who were super when they wore a different hat, so Boeing inherited a good work force.

I always get the feeling the Boeing Vertol division is the bastard step child of the country. They'd love for it to go away, but they made that fatal mistake of making a couple good helicopter designs in the sixties and now they can't shake it.

We've had some major workmanship and quality control problems with our "brand new" helicopters coming from the Philadelphia factory. We had a ton of electrical anomolies on an aircraft that had about 200 hours on it. We pulled the transformer rectifier to find it was an old, corroded "A" model (Vietnam!) rectifier that probably worked for years bolted right onto a shiny new mounting pad. Stories like that are typical now days.

If you bought an 85 million dollar car that had those kinds of problems, you take it back and demand a refund. Not us, we just drive on and dump millions fixing them locally.

Mike-

 

[TheBubba]

... Phillie, ...

You, sir, have offended me. Swords at dawn. :icon_smil

Its Philly. With a "y".

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

Yea this was on the mainstream media last week. I saw this...it happens I guess.

 

[Pags]

You, sir, have offended me. Swords at dawn. :icon_smil

Its Philly. With a "y".

Damn straight it is. The only time the i and e are applicable are when you're writing "Phillies", ie: The Phillies are an awful baseball team.

 

[D_Rob]

The Phillies are an awful baseball team.

Awful baseball teams go to the playoffs and are 2 games over 500? And they also have the MVPs from the previous two years?

 

[BlackBearHockey]

Awful baseball teams go to the playoffs and are 2 games over 500? And they also have the MVPs from the previous two years?

You forget, though, that most Philadelphia sports succumb eventually to the "Philly Phate."

 

[lmnop]

Awful baseball teams go to the playoffs and are 2 games over 500? And they also have the MVPs from the previous two years?

True...if one were to use the words 'awful' and 'baseball' in reference to PA, it should certainly be when discussing the Buccos. Maybe this will be the year that they can get above .500, but I've been holding my breath since '92 and it hasn't helped...

 

[xj220]

You forget, though, that most Philadelphia sports succumb eventually to the "Philly Phate."

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I believe SI had a good article on that. Although, I can't talk coming from Seattle...

 

[TheBubba]

Yet another successful AW threadjack. I do believe this thread is on its third topic.. and in only 12 posts. Amazing.

 

[Scoob]

You, sir, have offended me. Swords at dawn. :icon_smil

That's "S" words, Mr. Connery.

 

[Single Seat]

"Suck it, Trebek"