Originally Posted by
EDLB
If Boeing does no start soon a single aisle carbon plane with modern cockpit and a gear which allows for modern high bypass engines, they will be toast. Look what the legacy problems of airbus are and make it better. Hire a new Joe Sutter and keep the accountants out until the plane is certified.
Dreaming is still allowed and it was the dreams of people in the mid last century which made Boeing successful.
Before they start dreaming too much, I think they need to wake up. I wonder whether the honchos will get out of the
PR mode and truly into safety and engineering. Their main problem is not about having the right product to sell, it's actually building it properly. Now I'm dreaming, but there are still some in the company that know how to spell those things. Long ago they downsized QA/QC, engineering and the like, now it's time to downsize the executive offices.