Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

A lost bolt. One bolt. That was sufficient to blast a door plug out of a newly rolled-out Boeing 737 Max 9, taking off from Portland, Oregon, in January 2024. The close call, potentially ending in disaster, instead was the turning point for Boeing's new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, and...

The newest turn of America's next-generation fighter drama is not an engineering advance, but an intersection of engineering realities, budget constraints, and procurement politics. With Lockheed Martin racking up soaring losses and the Pentagon's plans for future air superiority grinding to a halt, the plan to redesign the single-engine...

There is an old joke about engineering "If at first you don't succeed, escalate your threat until someone listens." President Trump's latest action in the Ukraine conflict could have been penned by the most frustrated project manager ever reducing his ceasefire deadline to Russia from 50 days to 10,...