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☆ Fighter pilots can black out in seconds during high-G flying. Here's how flight experts say they train to stay conscious.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Athletes tend to have an advantage when it comes to preparing for high-G-force flights as they may already have significant lower body strength. AdvertisementHandling the real thingThe two main mechanisms of AGSM that prevent a pilot from passing out are calculated breathing and the squeezing of the lower body. Before the pilot even enters G-force onset while flying, they have to flex their lower body like their glutes, hamstrings and other muscles as tight as they can. "It's not a normal breath, it's a forced air exchange where you are essentially forcing the glottis open and closed really, really rapidly," Price Moore described. For instance, among other incidents, both the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds have lost demonstration pilots to G-LOC.

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☆ Boeing's now lost more than $2 billion on the new Air Force One planes – and has Donald Trump to blame
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Boeing lost another $482 million in the third quarter on the new Air Force One aircraft. AdvertisementAdvertisementBoeing lost another $482 million on building two planes that will become the new Air Force One, according to its latest earnings report. Known as VC-25Bs, the new aircraft will be larger and more fuel efficient, allowing the US Air Force to save roughly $1.9 billion in operations and maintenance costs during the jets' 20 to 30-year lifespans. When Air Force One was last replaced during the George H.W. Revenue rose 13% to $18.1 billion, reflecting the delivery of 105 commercial aircraft, while the net loss narrowed from $3.3 billion to $1.6 billion.

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☆ Boeing struggles to steer defense unit in another year of losses
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Valerie Insinna | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The Boeing KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling tanker is seen before a delivery celebration to the U.S. Air Force in Everett, Washington, U.S., January 24, 2019. Despite absorbing $4.4 billion in losses in 2022 – which executives said would lower the risk of future cost overruns – the unit has seen little improvement this year. Excluding last year, losses on Boeing's defense programs in 2023 exceed those from all years since 2014, according to a Reuters review of Boeing’s regulatory filings. The latest charge for Air Force One brought total losses to $2.4 billion on a $3.9 billion contract to develop two planes. A better bet, and one Boeing's defense segment is aggressively pursuing, is inking future contracts for next-generation fighter jets and cutting-edge drones.

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☆ Air Force One debacle: Boeing has now lost more than $1 billion on each of the president’s two new jets
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Cost overruns for the new Air Force One jets continue to pile on massive losses for Boeing. Boeing has now lost more than $1 billion on each of the two jets. Boeing took $1.45 billion in losses on the planes last year, and $318 million in 2021. “Air Force One, I’m just going to call a very unique moment, a very unique negotiation. The latest loss on the Air Force One jets is only a fraction of the losses reported by the troubled aircraft manufacturer, which has reported losses in all but two quarters since early 2019.

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Boeing said production and deliveries of 737s will be slowed as it does inspections and additional work to fix a pressure-sealing section of the planes. Boeing reported a $482 million loss in the quarter on a contract with the Air Force to build two new presidential jets because of higher estimated manufacturing costs. Revenue rose 13% to $18.10 billion. Deliveries of 737s slipped to 70 from 88 in the same period last year, but deliveries of 787 Dreamliners rose. Shares of the company rose about 3% in premarket trading.

Persons: David Calhoun Organizations: Boeing, Air Force, Revenue, Max Locations: Arlington , Virginia

General Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, visits the Joint Headquarters of the Russian armed forces involved in military operations in Ukraine, in an unknown location in Russia, in this picture released December 17, 2022. His reported removal suggests the authorities found fault with his behaviour, but the details of his alleged wrongdoing remain unknown. Surovikin earned the nickname "General Armageddon" during Russia's military intervention in Syria for the brutal tactics he employed there. He was placed in charge of Russian military operations in Ukraine last October, but in January that role was handed to General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, and Surovikin was made a deputy to Gerasimov. Afzalov was previously deputy to Surovikin and has been chief of staff of the Aerospace Forces for at least four years, according to British military intelligence.

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☆ Boeing defense margins to remain flat in second quarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 18 (Reuters) - Margins at Boeing's (BA.N) defense unit will look similar in the second quarter to its first-quarter results, Boeing Defense CEO Ted Colbert said Sunday. Margins at its defense unit were negative in the first quarter as Boeing recorded a $245 million pre-tax charge on the KC-46 tanker program. Colbert declined to say whether Boeing would take another charge on the KC-46, which has logged more than $7 billion in losses. He added that there is a “ton of activity” to improve performance at Boeing's defense unit but that it will take time for improvements to be seen. Boeing remains focused on "starting every program the right way," including a contract structure that gives Boeing a "fair shake and healthy business," Colbert said.

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☆ Boeing just made its last-ever 747 jumbo jet, ending a 5-decade era. See 7 ways the Queen of the Skies changed the industry forever.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

However, both VIP jets are being upgraded to the more efficient and longer-ranged 747-8i variant, though they will not be able to refuel in the air and the timeline for delivery has been pushed from 2024 to potentially 2028. Trump exiting Air Force One. Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesSource: DefenseOne, Boeing's new Air Force One jets are so late that the old ones may need to keep flying until 2028, costing taxpayers $340 million: report

☆ The last Boeing 747 has rolled off the assembly line, ending a more than 5-decade era. See 7 ways things the jumbo jet changed the industry forever.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Boeing's new Air Force One jets are so late that the old ones may need to keep flying until 2028, costing taxpayers $340 million: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Stephen Jones | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Boeing's new Air Force One build is so behind schedule that taxpayers face a $340 million hit. The Air Force said the existing 747 jets may have to keep flying until 2028, per the WSJ. In July, the Air Force said that it didn't expect the first plane— which uses the call sign Air Force One when the President is aboard — to be ready until September 2027, per CNN. The Air Force said the delays could keep them flying as late as the 2028 presidential election, per the Journal. The existing planes cost $70 million more to operate each year than their replacements, according to the Journal.

☆ Delays in Boeing’s New Air Force One Cause Costs to Pile Up for Shareholders, Taxpayers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Andrew Tangel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The two aging 747 jets currently serving as Air Force One when the president is on board came into service during the George H.W. Bush administration. Boeing ’s troubled project to replace Air Force One is getting costlier, both for the plane maker’s shareholders and U.S. taxpayers who will have to pay to keep the president’s aging jets flying longer. The Arlington, Va., aerospace company said it expects to lose $766 million more on the high-profile, years-late project to transform two 747-8 jumbo jets into flying White Houses, bringing its total losses related to the effort to nearly $2 billion, according to securities filings. The additional costs were part of a larger charge that led Boeing to report a $3.3 billion third-quarter loss.

☆ Boeing losses mount on troubled Air Force One program
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Boeing previously booked about $1.1 billion in charges on the program since 2020 and has now racked up $1.9 billion in losses on the $4.3 billion program that is up to three years behind schedule. Trump in 2016 had urged the government to cancel purchase of Boeing's new Air Force One saying it was "ridiculous" and too expensive." The planemaker's ailing defense business Wednesday recorded a $2.8 billion charge for a number of programs, including Air Force One. Boeing said the Air Force One losses were "driven by higher costs to incorporate certain technical requirements, increases to factory modification labor and support engineering, schedule delays and higher supplier costs." Boeing Chief Financial Officer Brian West said labor stability issues for Air Force One "are magnified because of the requirements to get security clearances."

☆ What Cramer is watching Wednesday — mortgage demand collapses, tech red flags
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

What I am looking at Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 Worst mortgage demand since 1997 . Early, weaker quarterly summary on tech Tuesday evening from Club holdings Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT). No longer in early innings of the cloud, and cloud costs, especially electricity, are way up. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.

The move to strengthen industrial leadership comes after delays and cost overruns blighted a series of long-term projects for which Boeing is locked in to a fixed price. Chief Financial Officer Brian West said last month fixed-price defense contracts were being "knocked around" by supply chain problems, inflation and labor shortages. In 2006, incoming BCA chief Scott Carson appointed Jim Jamieson chief operating officer of the planemaking unit - a wide brief giving him effective oversight of jet manufacturing and development until his retirement about 18 months later. Those changes came just as Boeing was trying to juggle changes in manufacturing with the development of the Boeing 787, while still bearing the wounds of a 1997 production crisis. Airbus (AIR.PA) has long had a chief operating officer at its main planemaking arm, though in practice it is more than a divisional role as the defense and helicopter units slot in underneath.

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