Comment on Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7
Zerlyna@lemmy.world 7 months agoInteresting. When I was growing up it was MDD, Lockheed and Boeing I flew. Now it seems it’s just Boeing and airbus. I wasnt keeping track when the merger happened.
jqubed@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lockheed left the commercial market after the L-1011 didn’t sell as well as they’d forecast, and Boeing merged with McDonnell-Douglas in the 1990s. It was supposed to be a merger of equals, but the finance people at McDonnell-Douglas ran the show and won the merger over the engineers who ran Boeing.