Originally Posted by
WHBM
I still don't understand how Boeing, who must have strings of BRILLIANT aeronautical engineers, could not get this one tied up within weeks of the grounding, yet here we are the best part of a year afterwards. Is there some internal turf war going on over whose solution or whose budget is going to manage this.
Because for the first time ever 20 + yrs worth of klufges and work arounds dating back to the first 737NG, got a good looking at.......and the results were not pretty. The 737 is certified under the regulations that existed in 1967, those regulations ignored/allowed stuff that is now considered completely unacceptable. Getting the existing mish mash of technology to be compliant is, I would suggest, a lot harder than starting from scratch.
Tome the ultimate irony is a complete upgrade of the cockpit and flight control technology was going to add 1 year to the Max development schedule and cost up to 10 Billion extra dollars. It was rejected out of hand at the project kick off yet here we are, grounded for at lest a year and the bill to Boeing is 8.3 Billion and rising.......