This story from the Australian Aviation archives comes from November 2011, when Geoffrey Thomas wrote about the first delivery of the Boeing 787 to Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) on September 26 2011.
“The bigger the innovation the more you can tolerate failure. If we had these kinds of execution problems with a product that wasn’t this innovative, we’d be in real trouble.”
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RHeaton
says:Ditching the 737 Max and focusing on production of the 787 would be a smart move for Boeing, but i think ego wont let that happen.