Originally Posted by
sevenstrokeroll
...the last good boeings were made by douglas
Do you mean the one where they (Douglas) didn't bother calculating what an explosive decompression would do to the floor (and the control lines running under it) with the volume of air inside a widebody?
There's a forest just outside Paris where you can kick over the topsoil and uncover small bits of DC-10 and even tinier fragments of the people who were on that DC-10 because Douglas didn't do their homework. And even then, having been called on not doing their homework, were given a mulligan by the FAA, promised they'd fix the problem and didn't.
Say what you will about Airbus and Boeing, but any mistakes they've made in the last four decades pale in comparison with that.