Re: Sad to see the queen of the sky’s go but won’t be flying in a 737 Max
Only pushing the certification rules to its limits brought about the 737 problem, the Max is virtually a new aircraft.
Both 737 and 747 were 1960s engineering that formed the platform for continued update and improvement for decades and outlasted their Lockheed and McDonnell-Douglas rivals. In the 1960s engineers at Boeing were able to come up with such robust designs that were solidly businesslike and pragmatic and out and out market leaders.
You might say that 787 is of the same ilk, but it is so dependent on tech that it somehow feels like a more delicate bird. I do think that modern engineers could learn from that 1960s approach.
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