Originally Posted by
Grumble
Embarrass them? How can we embarrass them more than they’ve done for themselves?!? Quite literally every single Boeing product is a **** show. Just got an article this morning that the T-7 is going to be delayed yet another year. Who needs 10 years to design and build a trainer using a 50 year old engine? Probably the same people that completely F’d up a 60+ year old airplane.
We’ve had their balls in a vice since the first 787 delay! There’s only so many free, non existent airplanes you can wait for before you need to just cut ties and harvest the losses. This is YEARS behind, unless you Boeing loyalists like getting cucked. Is that it?
777-9X is too big for US customers it’s solely focused on Asia/middle east
777-8X is too heavy which negates any fuel efficiency and hasn’t had an order in over 10 years
KC-46 has been having issues since it was first started and it’s literally a 767-200 which came out in 1982. It’s not even big enough to replace the KC-10
737Max- speaks for itself
787- obviously the program had its issues in the beginning and it’s been extremely expensive for Boeing but overall is a great airplane. But they will never push the technology limits like this again due to costs.
So what now? They just bought an ex delta MD-90 and are gonna strap a wing to the top of it and put UDF fan props on it like they did with the 72/MD80 in the 90s.
I don’t see a new airplane for Boeing in the next 10 years. I’m no expert but I really don’t feel like Boeing is going to be producing anything in the commercial market that they don’t already make between now and 2034.