>And just when Boeing needed experienced employees the most, it suffered a brain drain. In late 2022 many Boeing engineers started heading for the door to lock

>And just when Boeing needed experienced employees the most, it suffered a brain drain. In late 2022 many Boeing engineers started heading for the door to lock in pension payouts (which could be hurt by rising interest rates) they had accumulated. When full airframe production returned after the pandemic, a lot of the talent didn’t. One thing I worry about with complex products like aircraft in general, is what if we just forget how to do this stuff correctly? I mean the entire aviation industry was built in a single human lifetime. All of this was conceived and designed by our parents and grandparents. There's really no guarantee or precedent whatsoever in human history for that kind of knowledge transfer to occur between generations. I've been plagued by this feeling my whole life, that our generation (millenials and below) simply might just not be up to the task of keeping things going. It feels like we're starting to see those cracks.