Originally Posted by
Uplinker
I bet Boeing are now wishing they had lengthened the landing gear legs - to allow larger diameter fan engines to fit underneath, instead of forward of the wings - or brought in a FBW system (certainly in pitch), on the 73.
Or better still, started again: Boeing 797: a 150 -200 seat modern jet?
Saving money by not developing the above is, unfortunately, going to cost them many, many times more than that.
Talk is that Boeing's "NMA" programme is being dropped for a "FSA" -- Future Small Aircraft.
I do wonder how Boeing could afford to shutter the MAX and develop a replacement. It's debatable if it will ever make money on the 787 so how could it afford the necessary debt?