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Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2017 05:35:57 No.1045049 View View Reply Original Report

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What went wrong?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2017 06:24:37 No.1045052 Report

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>>1045049
Planes no longer had to have 3 engines to fly over oceans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2017 16:08:05 No.1045103 Report

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ETOPS

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Jan 2017 00:47:35 No.1045255 Report

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>>1045049
A reasonably good aircraft for it's time. They hauled a lot passengers around for years and then were replaced by something better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Jan 2017 04:18:11 No.1045289 Report

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>>1045049
General Dynamics engineered a cargo hatch that opened outward

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 02:29:20 No.1047708 Report

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>>1045049
MD's ability to fuck things up.

>>1045289
Just like other cargo hatches of its time.

McDonnell Douglas then told convair "lol fix it yourself not my problem."

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 02:55:12 No.1047712 Report

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>>1045049
The B767 and B777 came into existence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2017 04:10:55 No.1047723 Report

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i miss hopping across the pond in the three holer
something super cozy about it
and those massive cockpit windows so fantastic

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Anonymous Mon 20 Feb 2017 23:57:46 No.1050458 Report

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2017 01:52:10 No.1050496 Report

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>>1045052
now we need four. The continents have been drifting apart.

Tectonic plates. Look it up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2017 17:13:38 No.1050644 Report

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>>1045049
>What went wrong?

Merger of a military aircraft manufacturer (McDonnell Aircraft) with a largely commercial manufacturer (Douglas Aircraft) got the commercial division fucked over.

In the aircraft biz, it's just too much fun to market to the DoD (hookers, cocaine, kickbacks, etc.) rather than commercial customers. So corporate concentrated on gov't contracts and let the commercial division die.

Same will happen to Boeing after McDonnell-Douglas took them over.

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