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No Land 3
Too bad considering that the 757 was the original Max. Throw on more efficient wings and engines. Lost opportunity, instead they went with a design that is as old as a 727.
They went with the max to save $15-20B on clean-sheet R&D. They would have gotten away with their Rube Goldberg update too, if they had managed it a little better.... look at their pre-crash order book. I hope the max 10 main gear has better engineering and oversight than mcas.
Their motive for saving the R&D was either short-term greed, or longer-term planning for the looming need to incorporate revolutionary new technology into future airliners to save fuel (and thereby carbon). The tech wasn't ready yet, probably need another ten years.