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"McDonald-Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money." Such a travesty that a once great engineering company is now a bean-counting corner-cutting garbage cultu
by SkyMarshal 3y ago
"McDonald-Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money." Such a travesty that a once great engineering company is now a bean-counting corner-cutting garbage culture. They just never learn.
- bandyaboot 3y agoIs the “McDonald-Douglas” misspelling a joke or a mistake? Curious if this is an existing joke that I haven’t seen until now, because it kind of works.
- sufficer 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas
- marcellus23 3y agoThat doesn't answer GP's question.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> That doesn't answer GP's question. No, but it's helpful for people like me, who didn't remember the correct spelling.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoHeh, a mistake, maybe a Freudian slip, but I'll leave it uncorrected for the lols.
- ht85 3y agoThe McDonald-Douglas Fast Engineering company. I'm flyin' it!
- asylteltine 3y agoEven if unintentional, it’s funny because that’s how MD operated. Sure it’s a plane. Is it good? No.
- morganw 3y agoReminder that McDonnell-Douglas, operating as Boeing, owns Boeing Defense Space & Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Defense,_Space_%26_Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Defense,_Space_%26_Secu... which consolidates "Boeing Military Airplane Company; Hughes Satellite Systems; Hughes Helicopters minus the civilian helicopter line (which was divested as MD Helicopters); Piasecki Helicopter, subsequently known as Boeing Vertol and then Boeing Helicopters; the St. Louis–based McDonnell division of the former McDonnell Douglas Company; and the former North American Aviation division of Rockwell International." making it not just too big to fail, but too important to US and allies' defense to fail. I guess defense could be split from commercial aviation which could be reduced to producing parts to keep fleets in operation until Airbus can replace all planes over 30 or 40 years. Some of McD-D's commercial planes have a second life as military, though, e.g. the P-8 Poseidon based on the 737-800. I took a couple of cross-USA flights recently, some on 737-800 and some on 737 MAX 8 and noted that the 800's cruising speed is faster (cf. United's Hemispheres magazine). I suppose the carbon footprint of the MAX is lower, but whatever happened to flying at mach 0.9 ?
- jrockway 3y ago> whatever happened to flying at mach 0.9 Someone made a website showing which airlines have the most delays, so airlines just added an hour of padding to every scheduled flight, and then fly slower / burn less fuel when there aren't delays. We do the same thing with commuter trains. Someone was mad that they were late to work one day during a snowstorm or something. Now trains with a top speed of 80mph take 80 minutes to go 40 miles. But are on time 99% of the time! Look at all the time saved from not being late to work! Personally, I'd rather be 4 hours late to work once a year and save 1 hour commuting every day. But the masses have spoken and decided the opposite. I work from home, so not my problem, I guess.
- groby_b 3y agoMeanwhile, Japan operates trains at 200mph and operators apologize profusely should they actually experience a 25 second delay. Maybe the issue isn't that people complain about shitty service, but the fact that the service is shitty in the first place. At 80mph and at 30mph.
- chimpanzee 3y agoYup. More details: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1997-merger-paved-way-boeing-090042193.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1997-merger-paved-way-boeing-...
- hnthrowaway0328 3y agoAll large corporations become sort of bean-counting corner-cutting company after maybe a couple of decades. It is the game of modern Capitalism. They not only learned but learned well and early.
- MaxBarraclough 3y agoHow about, say, Airbus and Bombardier?
- hnthrowaway0328 3y agoBombardier sits on Canada.
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