Tracking 30 years of falling airline ticket prices
“It’s your fault. If you would just pay more for your airline ticket, it would relieve this situation.” The tongue-in-cheek reply was to question posed to then-Chief Executive of Spirit AeroSystems,...
View ArticleRevisiting The Sporty Game 36 years later
Crafting a summer reading list is easy. Sticking to it is a bit more challenging. One finds themselves gravitating back toward familiar parts of their bookcase. Revisiting one such shelf, a well worn...
View ArticlePat Shanahan’s sharp turn from tactics to strategy
The first time I met Pat Shanahan was in May 2008. He was trying to show Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner program, which he had been newly appointed to run, was back on track. (It wasn’t yet) But Shanahan took...
View ArticleWhat the shape of Boeing’s 7J7 tells us about the 797
The sixth in a series focusing on Boeing’s road to developing its next all-new commercial airplane. As it pondered a response to the arrival of the Airbus A320 and revamped MD-80, Boeing considered a...
View ArticleVestigial design issue clouds 737 Max crash investigations
The seeds of an intensifying crisis in 2019 with the planet’s most popular commercial airliner may have been planted more than a half-century ago. Five months after the crash of Lion Air 610, every...
View ArticleSearching for 40-year old lessons for Boeing in the grounding of the DC-10
The first in a series on the historical parallels and lessons that unite the groundings of the DC-10 and 737 Max. As the engine tore away from American Airlines Flight 191 — flipping up and over the...
View ArticleThe DC-10, 737 Max and the struggle to polish a tarnished airplane
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View ArticleLessons of DC-10 grounding pave way for 737 Max return
To try to make sense of what comes next for Boeing and the 737 Max, and what to avoid, we need to look backward again at McDonnell Douglas and its DC-10. The post Lessons of DC-10 grounding pave way...
View ArticleThe jumbo era that wasn’t
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber The first in a series on the history and lessons for Airbus and Boeing found in the pages of McDonnell Douglas’s 1992 MD-12 program review. Release DateApril...
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