Political convenience is a big one with them. At least with the passenger airplanes, their only competitor is very non-American Airbus, so they're not only too big to fail but too embarrassing to fail.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if in 10 years their liners regularly fall out of the sky, and the US government just covers it up domestically the way China does with a lot of their corner cutting.
That being said, I can't rule out that their bid wasn't just better here, at least on paper.
Boeing has put a bunch of flight hours on the experiential version, how well that translates to a production version who knows. If LM doesn't challenge then it's pretty clear Boeing's prototype was significantly better.
But then there's still a couple of other manufacturers available, isn't there? LM, NG... can't think of a third one currently... Boeing would be the last place I would go to for reliable and critical engineering
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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 44 pts · 1y
The flying wing looks like they left off the cover for the AA battery.
almost1337@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
Those would be the open weapon bays
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
Dropping some massive AA batteries with their ends connected to each other
camelbeard@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y
Would you really want to bet the future of your country on Boeing making something? They dropped the ball on passenger airplanes and a spacecraft
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 1y
At least we know there will be debris in a field every time we launch a sortie.
Sc00ter@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
The other option is lockheed, who just built an f35 that costs way too much money and doesnt meet requirements so its maybe better than the f22
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 15 pts · 1y
Y'know, from what I've seen of the F-35 it's an amazingly sane machine considering the requirements it had to meet were very much not sane.
almost1337@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
The program cost too much money or each airframe costs too much money?
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 28 pts · 1y
Why would anyone trust Boeing with such a project?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 20 pts · 1y
Political convenience is a big one with them. At least with the passenger airplanes, their only competitor is very non-American Airbus, so they're not only too big to fail but too embarrassing to fail.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if in 10 years their liners regularly fall out of the sky, and the US government just covers it up domestically the way China does with a lot of their corner cutting.
That being said, I can't rule out that their bid wasn't just better here, at least on paper.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Boeing has put a bunch of flight hours on the experiential version, how well that translates to a production version who knows. If LM doesn't challenge then it's pretty clear Boeing's prototype was significantly better.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
But then there's still a couple of other manufacturers available, isn't there? LM, NG... can't think of a third one currently... Boeing would be the last place I would go to for reliable and critical engineering
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
NG decided not to bid, actually, so it was a binary choice.
mvirts@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
At least it's not SpaceX
Murvel@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Using Spotify Flight thing
choab@discuss.online · 8 pts · 1y
wanderwisley@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Japan announcing a VF-1 Valkyrie that play’s city pop would make me nut into the 5th dimension.
Emil@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
Boing!!!
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Damn, I’m more of an Apple Music guy.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
If we can at least plug in an SD card or something w/ music files, I think the Gripen 2 could be workable.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Agreed!
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y