Boeing, like ogres, has layers, except the layers are decades of bad decisions and unforced failure. Pop quiz: name a new program that Boeing has started in th

Boeing, like ogres, has layers, except the layers are decades of bad decisions and unforced failure. Pop quiz: name a new program that Boeing has started in the last twenty years that was successful. Acquisitions, buyouts, remnant MD programs don't count. Now, during the post-COVID era, they're somehow spending all of their[1] cash in precisely those sectors that are forecasted to never recover - ever. Congratulations. That takes work. If you want to see this poetry in motion, take a look at what happens to any company bought by Boeing. If you could weaponize this kind of value destruction we'd figure out a way to put it in a JDAM and drop it on Hainan Island. The MAX software issues are at the very tippity tip tail end of a single one of these chains of idiocy, so I feel uncomfortable just piling all the sins on MCAS. The fact they even had MCAS should have been a gigantic red flag, and would have been in anything like a functional regulatory regime. The FAA PNW offices were unofficial Boeing locations even back in 2008. [1]rapidly shrinking reserves of