>>14046993I just read “flying blind”— a book about the 737 max and Boeing’s history in general. Basically, Boeing is never gonna recover. They’re a zombie that can’t really do anything right anymore. Lucky for them, other zombie companies are also quite shitty, also bloated from sucking at the government teat and inept from not having to innovate. Unluckily for them, newer more agile rivals are rapidly eating their lunch.
Boeing basically hasn’t done novel prototype stuff in a long time. Their glory days were 50 years ago- no one who worked on those projects is still working there. They say “it’s our heritage” but there’s no relationship between that old company that helped win ww2, land astronauts on the moon, and create the jet age.
The shocking indicator of a dying company is that they’re contracting out their core competency. They should be designing and building airplanes (and spaceships etc). However, they outsource a TON of this stuff— including to $9/hr pajeet coders. Do you think spacex outsources their core competencies? Sure they might for a very small amount of things. But Boeing literally outsourced the 787, and it ended up being way over budget and late (and having very dangerous design flaws that causes it to be grounded, albeit without fatalities) The 737 max was also partially outsourced, and worse, was designed by businessmen, not engineers so that’s largely why it sucked.
