Originally Posted by
WHBM
There was an old adage that the best airliner would be designed by Lockheed, built by Boeing, and with Sales & Marketing by McDonnell Douglas.
Cheeky aside - I'd amend that to "designed by Lockheed, BAC or Hawker-Siddeley", because truth be told a lot of the innovation came from this side of the pond - Lockheed themselves tacitly acknowledged this when they hired ex-HS avionics engineers for the TriStar. Unfortunately for them they seemed to inherit our tendency to have production difficulties at the same time...
