Originally Posted by
TURIN
You beat me to it.
In addition the Boeing Starliner space capsule is a mess. Years behind schedule. Paid for by the public purse.
Sure - back in 1950s the development of jet powered aircraft was paid for by all governments, but there hasn't been a direct government subsidy to Boeing to develop a civilian aircraft for non-government use.
Starliner isn't a commercial aircraft; Boeing has taken around $1B in development write-downs for it.