Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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.
The 737 should of been put out to pasture after the 300,400,500. My uncle was an engineer at Boeing, he helped design the 757,767 cockpit. He was also on a team to design a clean sheet replacement for the 737 back then, and came to the same conclusion that it would of cost too much. So now you're stuck with an outdated design that had to do stupid workarounds due to the landing gear being too short which is due to the original wing box design of the 100/200. Yes, it is that stupid!