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Larry W. Carnes
Senior Member
Username: Larry
Post Number: 1149
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 139.55.99.217
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 05:03 pm: | |
According to the propoganda I read a year or so ago, the upgraded C5s are supposed to be a lot more reliable. |
Bob Chall
New member
Username: Banda
Post Number: 3
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 71.70.68.130
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 03:24 pm: | |
So, they want to keep the c-5 that breaks down all of the time and get rid of the c-17.. Brilliant |
xLoadmaster,M.Lewis
Advanced Member
Username: Cblmelga
Post Number: 151
Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 76.17.91.102
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 11:35 am: | |
What have unions got to do with spacea??? |
Mike Engelmann
Intermediate Member
Username: Markmartin6sc
Post Number: 101
Registered: 10-2006
Posted From: 79.233.35.160
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 07:34 am: | |
Amen, Tim |
tim duncan
Advanced Member
Username: Duncanta
Post Number: 156
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 99.73.181.2
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 04:01 am: | |
UNIONS are the most screwed up operation I have ever seen they like to make the suites rich and the blue colars out of work. Unions only keep bad employees there protect them and do no one anygood. They should be against the law in the USA. I work for AA as a mechanic and regret the day I started here and was told you will pay the union or lose your job UNIONS ARE BAD FOR AMERICA |
John McClellan
Advanced Member
Username: Mccljp
Post Number: 249
Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 157.127.155.214
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 12:38 pm: | |
Can't get the rest to post here is the link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100512-715269.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines |
John McClellan
Advanced Member
Username: Mccljp
Post Number: 248
Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 157.127.155.214
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 12:37 pm: | |
Don't know if you have seen this or not, it may already be here. I didn't have time to check work has been crazy.
There is one line that all may find interesting, it is about the C-5's.
The Pentagon has wrestled with Congress for years to cancel the C-17 military transport jet program, but it could be a production-line strike at the Boeing Co. (BA) facility where the giant planes are built that will finally kill it.
"The real rub is the life of the program," said Wayne Plucker, an aerospace analyst with the research firm Frost & Sullivan.
"While both the union and Boeing talk about the potential for more sales to keep the line open, this may effectively seal its fate ... the defenders of the program in Congress have pretty well spent their chips on past rescues of the program," Plucker said in an interview.
The 1,700 assembly-line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant walked picket lines for a second day Wednesday, demanding better pension and medical benefits. Talks between management and the United Aerospace Workers broke down last week after employees rejected a 46-month contract offer from the company.
Boeing builds 16 C-17s a year, primarily for the U.S. Air Force, with a price tag of about $200 million each. But orders have been declining for the pricey jet and the company recently said it would lower its annual production rate to 10 by mid-2011.
The U.S. military has sought to end the program and instead upgrade its aging Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) C-5 Galaxy fleet at a fraction of the cost. It also wants to buy more C-130 Hercules planes, a smaller transport aircraft that has proved versatile in wars in the Mideast.
Multiple studies have shown the military has ample airlift capacity to meet current and future needs, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a speech Saturday in Abilene, Kan.
"The leadership of the Air Force is clear: They do not need and cannot afford more C-17s," Gates said. Yet Congress is fighting to keep it in the defense budget "at an unnecessary potential cost to the taxpayers of billions of dollars over the next few years," he said.
Congress' main concern is the high-paying jobs such aerospace programs create, but the strike among C-17 workers isn't going to strengthen the legislature's argument, according to Lawrence Korb, a defense analyst with the Center for American Progress, and a former assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan.
"The Pentagon had a lot of leverage [with Congress] to begin with because Gates has talked about getting the president to veto it," Korb said in an interview. With the budget deficit and more pressing needs in the defense budget, there are going to be cuts, he said. |
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