Originally Posted by
Mike Flynn
As the saying goes you can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig.
The 737 Max is a fifty year old design with a few lights bells and whistles.
All we are seeing with Boeing and the FAA is a method of selling this death trap to the worlds airlines.
They laughed at Airbus and their plastic and electric aeroplanes but sadly now discover they have missed the bus. (pun intended)
The 737 is a very safe 50 year old design. The problem lies with the politicians de-fanging the FAA and the defanged agency and Boeing agreeing on a "nudge nudge wink wink" way of certifying its successor without due diligence. The FAA should have the budget to certify properly, as it used to.
If Boeing had known they faced a full check by an independent agency they would have made a good new plane rather than sneak through a pig in a skirt with lipstick.
Edmund