re: #121 silverdolphin

Undervaluing experience and overvaluing leadership: the ballad of Boeing

Bring back Alan Mullaly, the last true Boeing engineer/leader wh was forced out of the company by the McD MBAs. He was a part of every single Boeing plane since the 60s. He retired from leading Ford successfully through thee automobile debacle in 2008 (only company that did no need a loan from the government).

One story I heard about the Boeing 737 was that they kept adapting the 737 and adding different things so that all of the commercial airline pilots wouldn’t have to get re-qualified for a different aircraft.

If they were qualified to fly a 737 then it didn’t matter if they changed the entire aircraft but still called it a 737, pilots were still qualified to fly a 737. It saves the commercial carriers tons of monies on not having to train pilots on new aircraft and that helps sell more airplanes.

The 737-100, 737-200, 737-300, 737-400, 737-700, 737-800, 737-900, 737-900ER and the 737 MAX are all different variants of the iconic Boeing 737.

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