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> Whatever happened to Boeing's "Engineering Excellence" ? McDonnell Douglas happened [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas https://en.wiki

• fmajid 3y ago
  An uncle worked for McDonnell Douglas, then Boeing, on military planes (C-17). The tales of the culture of utter corruption on the military contractor side he told were chilling.
• lr1970 3y ago
  > > Whatever happened to Boeing's "Engineering Excellence" ? > McDonnell Douglas happened [1]. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas More details are in the book "Flying Blind" [2]. It shows how Boeing's culture of Engineering Excellence was gradually replaced with MD's rotten parasitic culture through the process that is better described as "reverse acquisition". Formally Boeing acquired MD, but in reality MD took over Boeing. [2] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646497/flying-blind-by-peter-robison/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646497/flying-blind...
  • cyanydeez 3y ago
    it's basically how enshittification is happening.
• HeavyStorm 3y ago
  Everything either fails or succeeds long enough to become a poor version of itself.