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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by ginko on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:52AM (#34856415)
I've heard one theory that the merger with McDonnell Douglas swept the bean-counters from there into executive positions ruining the engineering focus at Boeing.
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by karmakaze on Sunday February 19, 2023 @11:39AM (#34859098)
That's what I read and understood to be the cause. Prior to that Boeing had an engineering culture all the way up.
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Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink by abudabi123 on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:31PM (#34859722)
The Microsoft spreadsheet happy-hippos are relying on India to buy enormous sums of Boeing passenger planes is one headline the media is running with, and another line of propaganda is to not bet against India. They say.
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