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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Has the MAX turned out to be an epic failure in terms of taking a 50 year old design and overpowering it with huge new engines?
Obviously an oversimplification on something I don't know much about but this is not good.
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It's not really overpowered, new engines are just phyiscally bigger because they have higher bypass ratios and are more efficient that way. This window/door blowout isn't objectively related to the design being 50 years old. A good chunk were cancelled but with 4,000 unfulfilled orders still, by any objective measure the frame is not an epic failure in terms of sales.
The $20 billion the crashes cost Boeing are only a small portion of the total cost of all the MAX's the will sell, at list prices.