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Boeing
Correspondence
"I do not believe that enough
attention has been paid to accident avoidance during the
detailed design phase of modern day aircraft development. The
engineering departments of the manufacturers do not have
separate, identifiable staff groups dedicated solely to a
continuous audit and review of each step of the design process
to insure that each and every design decision takes accident
avoidance and survivability into full consideration. I believe
that many accidents that have occurred during the past few
years would never had happened had such surveillance been
exercised."
"I recently sent a clipping
that I saw in Aviation Week to Pete Gifford, which, in effect,
vindicated the Burnelli design by virtue of its present day
look alikes such as the F-117, the B-2
, and the ill fated
A-12 which has just been cancelled. .... One of these days
the Burnelli design will be recognized for its inherent merits
and perhaps be awarded some monetary recompensation as well.
Let's hope so."
[We
applaud Mr.
Luplow for his honesty and integrity, both of which seem to
be in such short supply today at Boeing management
level.]
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The symbiotic relationship between the Smithsonian and
the Boeing Company and their refusal to admit to the
validity of Burnelli's Principle of design and have in fact
eliminated Burnelli from America's aeronautical heritage.
After years of
being ignored by the Smithsonian with regard to Mr. Burnelli's
exclusion from the Smithsonian Book of Flight, the Larson
behavior (see above) caused Mr. Goodlin to appeal (November 22, 1994) to a member of the
Smithsonian's Board of Regents, Mr. Frank Shrontz, Chairman of
the Boeing Company. Instead of receiving an answer from the
Smithsonian Regent, Mr. Frank Shrontz, Mr. Goodlin was
surprised to receive the response, from Boeing's Vice
President of Technology and Engineering, Robert A. Davis dated
December 21, 1994. Mr. Davis's
letter was a masterpiece of distortion which had no relevance
to the Smithsonian's obligation to uphold America's
aeronautical heritage and Mr. Burnelli's rightful place in it.
The Davis letter was refuted by Mr. Goodlin January 12, 1995. But there
can be no doubt that the Davis letter showed not only the bad
faith in which the Boeing Company acts (especially in view of
the above) and points to the fact that a symbiotic
relationship between Boeing (industry) and the Smithsonian
(Government) exists, a serious detriment to American taxpayers
and the travelling public in general.
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