are that Boeing was a far superior engineering company with long history of strict standards. They were the absolute best in the world and everybody knew it.

Airbus specs and composite materials would be sent to me for testing manufacturing tools and methods (just like Boeing specs and materials), but if our team had any questions, on the reason for unusually tight specs, Airbus couldn't answer our questions. Ever.

Upon closer inspection of the specs they sent us, it became apparent that Airbus had stolen Boeing specs and erased / replaced certain numbers with their own numbers. They couldn't answer our questions because there was no engineering basis for their weird limits. All they had done was double the Boeing specs into unachievable nonsense.

Then Boeing got a new president who wasn't an engineer, but an MBA with zero shop experience. He didn't understand AT ALL the culture of engineering excellence they had carefully developed over nearly a century, and he had no clue as to the depth of pride they had in their reputation of building the absolute best, safest plane in the world.

Nope. Not a shred of an inkling. Instead he oversaw the dismantling of the research arm (the BR&T group) in which 4,500 of the senior researchers, including about 2,500 PhD were laid off and the research was sent overseas to inferior engineering firms with zero experience in advanced composite materials. He took a dump on the value of decades of key industry engineering knowledge.

He further contracted with crappy companies in Europe and Asia to construct the B787, and I was called in to help them re-work their mistakes (a safety concern).

Some of the wings were so badly screwed up by the replacement/ untrained companies that these parts had to be shipped to Boeing facilities in Everett, Washington and Charleston, SC for emergency salvage. At $22 million per wing, they couldn't afford to scrap them.

But Boeing was contractually obligated to train these European and Asian replacement companies in their deep engineering knowhow - thus training their competition. This shortsighted MBA essentially allowed their competitors to skip the decades of research and trillions of dollars of engineering investment. That MBA leader gave it away for free, killing off an American icon and giving away incredibly advanced technology.

Boeing used to be the best in the world, with a strong engineering culture. It wasn't until some MBA/Globalist came along. It's worth noting that Boeing also researched the most advanced military technology anywhere. That idiot crippled that segment as well, weakening American military strength/security. I absolutely loath the MBA beancounter approach to business over superior quality as the best order of business.

End of rant.