by Dr. Hans von Ohain

Airbus has just staged the first flight of the biggest passenger aircraft ever. A CNN article reports “The world’s largest passenger plane has made its maiden flight in an aviation milestone that Europe’s jetliner maker hopes will give it a boost in its battle with American rival Boeing. The Airbus A380 ’superjumbo’ touched down in the southern French city of Toulouse at 2:22 p.m. (1222 GMT) Wednesday after a flight of nearly four hours. Nearly 30,000 spectators watched the double-decker plane take off and land. The white jet with a blue tail carried six crew members and test equipment. The crew, dressed in bright orange overalls, waved happily when they threw open the door of the plane and descended the steps after landing.”

The introduction of a massive new aircraft clearly designed to replace the Boeing 747 is another nail in Boeing’s coffin. Airbus has been taking an increasing market share away from Boeing for years now. The usual excuse from Boeing officials is that Airbus is heavily subsidized by European governments. Boeing meanwhile gets billions in military contracts from our government, which could easily be equated to subsidies.

Boeing’s last new airplane was the 777 which first flew in 1994. It was the first new commercial airplane for Boeing since 1984. Boeing’s next airplane is the 7E7 (which was recently renamed the 787). The 7E7 will not have its first flight until at least 2007 and will carry about half the passengers of the Airbus 380. Boeing briefly considered building a superjumbo jet, but the corporate management lost its nerve and surrendered the field to Airbus in February 1998. Airbus however is not afraid of competing. The Airbus 350 will be their version of a super-efficient mid-sized jet which will compete directly with the 7E7.

Why is Boeing taking longer and longer to produce new jet designs and refusing to compete with Airbus? Boeing is suffering from a serious decline in the quality of its engineers, which is tied directly to race. Beginning in the 1970s Boeing began hiring an ever increasing number of minorities. Any complaints about non-White engineers or workers being less competent than Whites was viewed as “racism” so there was never any accurate feedback on the insane policy of making Boeing more “diverse.” The top management of Boeing mandated that more minorities be hired and quality be damned.

In recent decades Boeing has hired large numbers of Indian and other Third World engineers since they could pay these people much less than White Americans. Boeing management decided that engineers were all interchangeable regardless of country of origin. Engineers who could trace their lineage to Scotland or Germany were considered no different than engineers from Bangladesh or Nigeria. This Marxist approach to engineering has resulted in a heavily multi-racial work force with a precipitous drop in quality and competency.

There is a good reason why India and Pakistan don’t build commercial airliners. Their engineers simply aren’t good enough. Even with 1.2 billion people, India does not have enough competent engineering talent to do what America or western Europe has been able to do with a fraction of the population.

Instead of focusing on engineering, creativity and hiring the best, Boeing has chosen to be politically correct, miserly and blind. Boeing has a matching flaw for every problem at Airbus. The mindless liberal corporate mentality in Europe is matched (if not exceeded) by the politically correct insanity at Boeing. The socialist workers in France are not much different than the unionized workers at Boeing. The one significant difference between Boeing and Airbus is race.

Airbus has mostly White workers and engineers with just a few Arabs, Turks and other Third Worlders diluting their work force. Boeing has a much more non-White work force resulting from decades of quota hires and years of importing cheap labor from the Third World. Boeing has stubbornly refused to pay good engineering salaries sending the best American engineers to other companies and other projects.

After undermining the quality of their employees for decades with low pay and an anti-White bias, Boeing is struggling in its attempt to build a new mid-sized commercial jet (the 7E7). The composite wing for the 7E7 has been subcontracted out to the Japanese because Boeing doesn’t trust its own engineers to do the job. It seems likely the hopeless bureaucracy and non-White dead weight at Boeing will ultimately kill the 7E7 project. The program will almost certainly suffer delay after delay and the prototype will be thousands of pounds overweight. Boeing may simply no longer have the technical competency to produce a viable new commercial airplane and the blame lies with their increasingly non-White work force.