Not Going to Lie, It Scares Me

 As most of you know, we often fly around the world here at the Compound. We've been across the Atlantic 5 times and across the Pacific once in the last 8 years. 

That's not including flights within North America. 

Most, were on Boeing made aircraft.

Yes, Boeing who has had wheels fall off a plane, hydraulic fluid pour out of an aircraft, an aircraft shake so violently it had 50 people on board were injured. Another who had a door fall off in flight, still another a cargo door fall off with live animals inside,and still another, in which an engine started shooting fire out of it. 

These all occurred this year. Most in the month of March.

That's not including a Boeing in which a bathroom door stuck shut and the man inside could not get out without two male passengers, and a co-pilot all yanking on the door before it was pulled open.   

All of these were 737-Max, 777, or 787 Dreamliners. All made by Boeing.

To make matters worse, a whistleblower who had testified about the working and construction conditions at the Boeing 787 Dreamliner plant in Charleston, SC...Including shoddy construction and widespread drug use by the workers on the assembly line....Was found dead in a hotel parking lot of a suspected " suicide." 

Except for my last trip to England on Singapore Airlines on an Airbus 350, and our China trip in which our second leg was on a China Eastern Air Airbus 330 Hong Kong to Kunming, most of our flights have been on an American made Boeing aircraft. 

Most Boeing 777s. 

For years and well up until recently, I was told, " You got to quit buying the foreign made junk." 

But you know, my son driving my old Honda, with 300,000 miles. 

My wife has a Subaru with 150,000 miles.

I am hoping to keep my Honda until I die. And yes, they are Japanese companies, but they were made in Ohio and Indiana.But, the Japanese are requiring quality products. 

I have a friend who has already replaced two fuel pumps and is having transmission troubles on their 2021 GMC truck. American engineered and made. ( 40,000 miles)

Another friend had a Ford F-150 that had an engine replaced, by Ford at 20,000 miles. And there is something wrong with the new engine.They're looking at trading in it for a Toyota. 

But back to airliners, never would I ever think of preferring riding on a French made Airbus over an American made Boeing. But you know, I seriously question both American manufacturing and labor. 

And we plan to fly at least 2 flights later this year in which the airlines mostly fly Boeing aircraft. 

Not going to lie, thinking twice about flying....