Originally Posted by
RufusXS
You’re right, it’s not “totally new technology,” I think he just meant it’s new in the sense of the size of this application.
Exactly - there is a wee bit of difference in technology between a 7,000 lb. thrust class GTF and one producing about five times that much thrust. Boeing may have made the decision for the wrong reasons, but I doubt many people working the MAX think they made the wrong decision...