Boeing 737 Max 9: Here we go again
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He had better not go anywhere by himself. 
Randy
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Flitter, I used a BFH & 2x4 many times on helicopters in years gone by.
New Boeing whistleblower says planemaker cut corners on its jets: ‘I am doing this not because I want Boeing to fail, but because I want it to … prevent crashes’
“I literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the airplane to get them to align.”fortune.com
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Betcha it wasn't on composite materials.
Randy
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Correct, the BFH, 2x4, duct tape, bailing wire & beer/coke cans days are petty much gone.
Hey Randy, funny how those expressions endure, where would we be w/o bailing wire and duct tape? As I recall Apollo 13 survived in part thanks to some duct tape and cardboard?
Randy
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Plastic covered flight plans.
I got a Huey home from McCarren-Hughes Terminal Las Vegas to Ft Irwin with light fiberboard and duct tape over the left chin bubble after a shuttle driver drove right into the nose, knocked the bird about 3ft backwards and tore the crap out of the nose. Maintenance pilot and myself took another bird from home (Ft Irwin) to Vegas so that the General wouldn't have to thumb a ride (about 1 hours at lightspeed, in a Huey about 110 knots), looked it over (I had to disconnect the pedals & cyclic) , signed it off for a 1 time flight and boogied at the breakneck speed of 90 knots to the house. Couple days later the bird was flying missions again and the Hughes Executive Terminal got a bill. Kinda funny all those guys in suits bringing me and my pilot cokes and snacks while apologizing at the same time. (Plus it looked bad with that banged up Huey sitting next to the Gulfstreams & Citations).
Randy
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And the right kind of BFH
Andy Griffith had it right.......Go to about 1:30 minutes or so
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