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This sounds an awful lot like the Boeing story, even including the “[engineering] class traitor” running the failing division.
by wrs 3y ago
This sounds an awful lot like the Boeing story, even including the “[engineering] class traitor” running the failing division.
- mulmen 3y agoBoeing was put on the path to failure by James McNerney. He was their first non-engineer MBA CEO. A literal Jack Welch apprentice. He divested Spirit and chose to build the MAX instead of the 797. Dennis Muilenburg was an engineer and handled the MAX crisis poorly but wasn’t responsible for the decision to divest key capabilities from Boeing or to optimize short-term sales over long-term survival by building the MAX instead of a new airliner.
- wrs 3y agoGood point. But really it was Phil Condit who’s often regarded as kicking off the long slide to mediocrity with the McDonnell merger and move of Boeing HQ to Chicago. And he’s an engineer.
- mulmen 3y agoFair point, thanks for the clarification.
- senderista 3y agoThe MAX was exactly what their customers wanted.
- mulmen 3y agoWell, no, it isn’t. Nobody wanted a plane that suddenly turns into a lawn dart or falls apart in the air. The MAX was short term thinking on Boeing’s part. A foolish mistake in the aerospace industry. Boeing was a few years behind Airbus. Now they are a decade behind and tarnished their reputation.
- ikrenji 3y agowasn't max a record selling plane? nothing wrong with modernising a 737 variant. plenty wrong with putting MCAS in it which goes haywire when its sole sensor fails
- mulmen 3y agoWhat’s wrong with modernizing a 737 is exactly what happened. The design has already been modified to the limit. There is nowhere to go from here. Boeing spent the money to develop the MAX but they still have to develop a new plane to replace it. In the long term it will cost more than just building the plane they actually needed.
- cogman10 3y agoWelch and Reagan teamed up to destroy the middle class.