Whoops
Looking like we're into a fifth (even sixth) year of net losses at Boeing?
Boeing is warning of another hit to its bottom line, at least partly at the hands of the company's Calamity Capsule, the CST-100 Starliner. In preliminary fourth-quarter results, Boeing said it expects a pre-tax earnings charge of $1.7 billion in its Defense, Space and Security division. $800 million of that is going on the KC …
The airframes for the new presidential transport were completed ages ago... They were some of the last 747-8i frames built.
So that's not going to be the problem... I suspect there'll be other things, like... ohhhh... the orange one's obsession with McDonalds?
It becomes rather difficult if the country at the other end of the trip does the same.
Unless everyone has to meet in Iceland to change planes.
They could have an aviation version of the Jones Act, which requires all ships travelling between US ports to be US built, owned and crewed.
That was intended to protect the US commercial shipbuilding industry.
As only a professional economist or small child could have told you - it resulted in a tiny inefficient US industry, massively expensive shipping costs to Hawaii and Puerto Rico and a shortage of specialist vessels like dredgers, heavy lift, rig support etc.
illegal for any airline to fly to the US unless it is using a Boeing
I could a see an international airport in Baja California and a fast rail link into California being a little earner, and Canada into the East Coast.
A considerable number of prospective passengers probably wish to avoid taking a ticket in the Boeing lottery.
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They did run the test... what they didn't realise was that the test rig was set up very slightly wrong (a lens was 1.3mm away from where it should have been). It was very precisely ground to ever so slightly the wrong shape.
Fortunately the test hardware hadn't been touched in the years since the grind, so the mistake could be very accurately characterised, and therefore correctable...
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/observatory/design/optics/hubbles-mirror-flaw