Only a greedy moron buys anything critical from a Chinese supplier. If the supplier screws you, there isn’t one damn thing you can do about it. Boeing is seeing that with the ‘Dreamliner’. They outsourced parts and the damn thing is failing on them. They can’t find the problem because the parts aren’t uniform. They can have all of the quality control in the world over things they build, but they have no way of controlling what their suppliers are doing.
The people at the top don’t care, because they will get their absurd salaries no matter what happens to the company.
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When I was in charge of engineering projects, especially those that could easily kill someone or cause a disaster, none of them ever has. Maybe that’s just me, and maybe I am just lucky. Yeah. Then again, maybe I just took my job seriously, and did the work, seriously. And maybe I actually gave a shit about the value of human life. Though, I do have to admit that in recent years, once I discovered that the USA was a major buyer of those machines I and my team designed… I sometimes wish that perhaps I hadn’t been quite so diligent. *shrug*
]]>Flying and space flight in particular are experimental and inherently dangerous. People are willing to do it because there are new things to be learned. When the US turned against science, we lost the edge that we had in the world. Too many people today are too frightened to learn new things.
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