SqueakTomsen - you might find this as disturbing as I did.
It's the aircraft equivalent of Warner Bros-Discovery, only they've managed to hide it for almost 20 years instead of 2+.
It's the aircraft equivalent of Warner Bros-Discovery, only they've managed to hide it for almost 20 years instead of 2+.
I sense something missing here?
Suicide Mission
There it is.
That's a long - but very scary - read.
Driving out people who cost a lot is a constant in bottom-line obsessed managers. Unfortunately for him, Boing is in a business where mistakes cost lives. So that's definitely not the an acceptable approach for it.
(This is also the company that had import duties on a plane for which it had no competitive product. I guess having someone show how a good plane is done would have been too hard on the managers' ego.)
The C-series/A220 thing still makes me angry.
Bombardier developed a new generation of short to medium range smaller passenger jets called the C-Series. Boeing got huge import tariffs enacted against them, despite not having a competing product. Bombardier eventually sold the whole project to Airbus...
... who now makes them as the A220, a plane that I have not yet managed to fly on, but I really, really want to.
It was (still is, I guess) a revolutionary plate too, as it was very economical in fuel, and very silent too. Millions in R&D poured in, many from the Quebec (and Canadian) government through various means, and we were not able to get the dividends as the tariffs put the company in a tight financial spot,
hence the sale of the place to Airbus. If not for that, it would have brought a lot more money than what it was sold for.
(...) sale of the plante to Airbus, of course. 
dkronfeld: That sounds a little like the MD-90 (I think??), which was renamed as the B-717 and seemingly abandoned after the merger.
Bah. I give up. I'll just make more typos.
We know what you mean 