Something that is only touched on in passing is the 737NG delay. It wasn’t “chaos” that caused those delays: Flight testing exposed structural problems with t

Something that is only touched on in passing is the 737NG delay. It wasn’t “chaos” that caused those delays: Flight testing exposed structural problems with the tail section (cracking) and it had to be rapidly redesigned and rebuilt. The internal rumor mill laid the feet at poor finite engineering work: The current practitioners looked at all the mass in the tail structure and said “We can do better, those old pencil and paper guys were so dumb”