Will Boeing Become The Next McDonnell Douglas?

as a child i said 707,717,727,737,747,757,767,777,787.. no 797 and no 7107.

Ever since the merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997, Boeing has increasingly taken on the corporate culture of McDonnell Douglas. At the time of the merger, Seattle employees joked that “McDonnell Douglas had bought Boeing with Boeing’s money,” but there was an element of truth to this because it was the McDonnell executives who ended up in control of the merged company.

Read Jeremy Useem's excellent article in "The Atlantic" November 2019, "The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course - A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing-lost-its-bearings/602188/

yES.