- Remarkable insight from bMoa - and commenters - on how the Long Descent is biting air-travel - Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym
on September 4, 2019, 7:11 am
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Read what's happening to the Boeing Max - and how the Boeing management are reacting - for a text-book case of how the now-begun ebb-tide away from the high peak of industrial techno-whizzery 'civilisation' is manifesting itself in practical, observable ways. It seems likely that this screw-up will trigger the destruction of Boeing - over a somewhat dragged-out decline period. It's worth noting that one of Dmitry Orlov's conclusions about why the US is no longer able to invade and bring to heel any state it wishes, any time it chooses, is that they simply have an absolute shortfall of any kind of troop-transport-capable aircraft to airlift enough ground forces rapidly enough to their proposed interference locations; even if every serviceable - key proviso - civil aircraft were to be commandeered for the purpose: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/09/737-max-boeing-insults-international-safety-regulators-as-new-problems-cause-longer-grounding.html#more |
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