mccuerc wrote: Aug 28th 2010 3:21 GMT
If I remember correctly the new, leaner, meaner, more efficient, more financially astute Boeing Company moved it's headquarters to Chicago spurning staid old Seattle to break the back of the engineering cabal that had run the company. Now free from the tiresome deadweight of people who actually built airplanes they could aggressively expand the Boeing Brand and use the brilliance of financiers and marketing professionals to build new airplanes. No more engineering driven over-built aircraft for Boeing! No more greedy union engineers and their pesky calculators! Finance would now rule the engineers and not vice versa.
Why does this sound like General Motors?
What Gulliver does not mention is that this is the first of the new paradigm where Boeing will no longer build airplanes. Instead it will integrate and assemble sub assemblies from multiple sub contractors trying to undercut each other. Boeing is becoming a design shop and an main assembly point. It is becoming Airbus, deliberately.