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What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)
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[–] derf82@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

The 787 entered service in 2011. I would not call that a very long time.

They absolutely should have produced a clean sheet 737 replacement. But cost overruns from the 787 program, competition from the much faster to develop A320neo, and worries about existing operators going A320 if they developed a new type rating stupidity scared them off.