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The Lost Boeing 717 Models
The Boeing 717 is a unique product in the Boeing line-up. Acquired through the purchase of McDonnell Douglas, the aircraft became relatively successful on shorter, regional routes. But it wasn’t originally intended to be a standalone aircraft; it should have had two sisters, one larger, one smaller. What happened to these ‘lost’ Boeing 717 models? (simpleflying.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Getting rid of the 757 and not pursuing the 717 were really bad decisions by Boeing manglement (not misspelled) as was corporate headquarters move to Chicago. Was choice of murder USA really because the CEO wanted lakes to sail on and Dallas and Atlanta had neither?
I was a BMW Rolls engineer on the B717 testing out of Yuma (AZ). Flew all sorts of tests: deep stalls over the "Dunes" ("Yippee kai-yeah, etc.") , rejected T/Os out of Moses Lake ... snow ingestion in Cold Bay, AK., touch-n-goes at Edwards ...
How about that inverted stall ?
A 70-seat 717-100 would have been an absolute rocket.
Boeing was having all kinds of fun making bad decisions back then. Cancelling the 717 after a short run, cancelling the 757, going with the 737-700... Dare I say that, had Boeing kept the 717 and redesigned it with composites, the CRJ series would be dead and the C-Series (A220 now) would never have been conceived, Boeing would have been spared its humiliating failed merger with Embraer, and more time might have been available to give the 737 the clean sheet approach it clearly needed now that the MAX debacle is their main focus.
Boeing was having all kinds of fun making bad decisions back then. Cancelling the 717 after a short run, cancelling the 757, going with the 737-700... Dare I say that, had Boeing kept the 717 and redesigned it with composites, the CRJ series would be dead and the C-Series (A220 now) would never have been conceived, Boeing would have been spared its humiliating failed merger with Embraer, and more time might have been available to give the 737 the clean sheet approach it clearly needed now that the MAX debacle is their main focus.
Once Boeing took over MDC the 717 never had a chance.
Why would you keep building an Airplane type that was so different from the Boeing Line. The Long Beach plant that once employed me an 40,000 other workers in the 1970’s was doomed after the merger.
Cheers,
GB
Why would you keep building an Airplane type that was so different from the Boeing Line. The Long Beach plant that once employed me an 40,000 other workers in the 1970’s was doomed after the merger.
Cheers,
GB
The 717 pedigree is pretty solid. For missions 1500 NM or less (LGB to ORD), the twin jet operating costs (fuel alone) win over the 737 variants. Puget sound (at the time) did not and does not want 737 operators to know that.
I've read that the controlling shareholders, the Douglas family, were unwilling to bet the company on a DC10 derivative with two engines. I've read that Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas to get the freighter.
It is a sad chapter for the shareholders and employees, and handed its market share to Airbus.
It is a sad chapter for the shareholders and employees, and handed its market share to Airbus.