Democrat Sen. Jon Tester (MT) received tens of thousands of dollars from Boeing lobbyists and failed to disclose a meeting at a Boeing facility attended by one of its lobbyists last October, Politico reported.
Nearly half of the “46 foreign policy experts” who called for more arms to Urkaine in a POLITICO letter have ties to the Arms industry.
Durable goods orders soared thanks to purchases of civilian aircraft. But core capital goods orders were much weaker than expected.
A Washington woman who works at Boeing has been identified as the winner of a Powerball jackpot after purchasing a ticket once the jackpot reached $747 million.
Boeing donated $20,000 to fund a conference that trains teenagers to become social justice activists for the transgender and diversity agendas.
The Boeing Company is set to outsource to India hundreds of coveted white-collar American jobs, beginning this year, while making billions from taxpayer-funded contracts with the Defense Department.
Wisk Aero, a startup founded in 2019 and backed by Boeing, has debuted its sixth generation remote-piloted “air taxi,” a yellow all-electric four-seat aircraft that can fly without a human pilot. The company touts its plug-in planes as the answer to city traffic congestion.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday announced sanctions against Boeing Defense CEO Ted Colbert and Raytheon CEO Gregory Hayes for their role in U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, which supposedly “violate the One China principle” and “gravely undermine China’s sovereignty and security interests.”
Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Breitbart News exclusively that “getting it done” and putting wins on the scoreboard are the core ethos of his administration five months in.
A special, one-off German spend of $108 billion on new military equipment is expected to be approved Friday with U.S. manufacturers amongst those to benefit.
A 23-year-old woman has taken the phrase “mile-high club” to a whole new level by professing her sexual attraction to airplanes.
Chinese crash site investigators said on Wednesday that one of the “black box” flight recorders from China Eastern Flight MU5735 has been found, and is “relatively intact.” The search for a second black box continues, hampered by heavy rain in the area. Chinese state media continues to provide few serious details about the crash, beyond confirming on Tuesday that none of the 132 passengers or crew survived it.
The terrible plane crash in China’s southern Guangxi region continued as a headline news item in Chinese state media on Tuesday – but after 24 hours, no significant details about the incident have been revealed to the public. China’s aviation regulator cautioned the public that it might take years for the investigation to be completed, and little news should be expected until then.
Billy Bova, a Democrat supporter of former President Donald Trump, said greed and cheap labor are the reasons American corporations continue to operate in communist China despite the country’s threat to the United States and its continued human rights abuses, including slave labor.
Boeing suspended its coronavirus vaccine mandate for U.S. employees on Friday after a recent U.S. District Court ruling halted President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors.
The Chinese government is allegedly blocking domestic airlines from purchasing “tens of billions of dollars” in planes from Boeing, a U.S. multinational aerospace company, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters on Tuesday.
Far-left actor John Cusack, who has amassed an estimated $50 million net worth in his near forty-year Hollywood career, this week trashed the United States of America, calling it a “f**king awful” place “full of cowards and corporate whores.”
The U.S. State Department approved a possible $3.5 billion sale of AH-64E Apache helicopters to Australia on Thursday, as Canberra continues to invest in its century-plus defense alliance with Washington.
A Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Airlines has made an emergency landing at Salt Lake International Airport Monday afternoon due to engine issues, an airport spokeswoman told KUTV.
The Boeing Company is outsourcing 600 American information technology (IT) jobs to Dell Technologies, which regularly imports foreign visa workers to take IT jobs, while expanding its production base in India.
Boeing has reportedly agreed to pay $2.5 billion to end a DOJ criminal investigation and has admitted that employees deceived aviation regulators about safety issues that resulted in two deadly crashes of the 737 MAX.
Amazon announced this week that it is purchasing Boeing airliners from Delta and WestJet and converting them from passenger planes to cargo jets to assist with a surge in online shopping. Amazon’s purchase of 11 Boeing 767-300 passenger jets is a sign of both its increasing dominance in the American economy as well as the airline’s struggles in the era of lockdowns.
Financial analysts are concerned about the future of Boeing after two years of financial hardship. Boeing has struggled financially as a result of the. international grounding of the 737 Max fleet and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon officially surpassed Boeing to become the largest employer in the state of Washington. As of 2020, there are approximately 80,000 Amazon employees in the state of Washington. By contrast, Boeing employs 58,800 employees in the state.
This week, the Boeing 737 Max returned to the commercial airways with a three-hour American Airlines flight between Miami and New York City. Tuesday’s flight marked the first time that a Boeing 737 Max transported commercial passengers since the plane was grounded in 2019 following two fatal crashes.
A new report published by the Senate Commerce Committee alleges that Boeing “inappropriately influenced” FAA test pilots during flight simulations. The interference allegedly took place when test pilots attempted to interact with the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), the same function that led to two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said: “Our findings are troubling. The report details a number of significant examples of lapses in aviation safety oversight and failed leadership in the FAA. It is clear that the agency requires consistent oversight to ensure their work to protect the flying public is executed fully and correctly.”
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announced this week that the aircraft manufacturer will indefinitely freeze salary increases for employees. Boeing suffered financially in 2020 as a result of both the 737 Max crisis and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Calhoun claims that it “may be three more years until we achieve a full recovery.”
A new report published this week by CNBC dives into the conditions at Boeing and the FAA that led to and prolonged the 737 Max crisis. The 737 Max fleet was grounded by aviation authorities around the world after two fatal crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019. Both crashes, which were caused by a flaw in the fleet’s flight systems, claimed the lives of all passengers and crew on board.
The Brazilian airline GOL will resume Boeing 737 Max passenger flights on Wednesday. The flights will mark the fleet’s first passenger flight in nearly two years. The 737 Max fleet was grounded by aviation officials around the world after two fatal crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019.
American Airlines announced over the weekend that it will charter five flights on the infamous Boeing 737 Max carrying only its own employees as part of a trial program. The FAA approved the fleet for a return to the airways in November following a 20-month hiatus that occurred after two fatal crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019.
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly argued this week that software bugs in Boeing’s 737 Max fleet were “easily” fixed by engineers. The software problems led to two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, each of which claimed the lives of all passengers and crew on board.
Airlines will reportedly allow their passengers scheduled to fly on a Boeing 737 Max aircraft to reschedule their flight at no cost. The FAA announced this week that the 737 Max fleet is permitted to return to the airways after a 20-month hiatus that was prompted by two fatal crashes due to multiple safety deficiencies.
Boeing received zero orders for aircraft in the month of October. Despite the setbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic, European competitor Airbus received 11 new orders in the month of October.
The FAA may soon be issuing its stamp of approval on the Boeing 737 Max fleet, which has undergone intensive safety overhauls after it was involved in two crashes that claimed the lives of 346 people. The fleet was grounded by aviation authorities in countries around the globe shortly thereafter.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that China will impose unspecified sanctions against Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense, Raytheon, and other “individuals and companies who behaved badly in the process of arms sales” to Taiwan.
Boeing reported more cancellations this week for the embattled 737 Max airliner and eleven total aircraft deliveries. The company delivered twice as many airplanes to airlines last September.
Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who was widely celebrated for his 2009 landing of a US Airways flight in the Hudson River, argued this week that Boeing should do more to in
Boeing’s 747-400 aircraft was first introduced in 1988 and appears to still be receiving critical software updates from the same 3.5-inch floppy disks that were the primary form of portable digital media in the 1980s.
The Boeing Company is set to lay off more than 12,000 Americans in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis while planning an expansion in India.
Aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus announced this week that they are conducting tests to determine how the Chinese virus behaves on airplanes in flight. Their efforts, along with work by the FAA and CDC, are concentrated on ensuring safe flights as the public returns to the skies.