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Originally Posted by timun
The common refrain I've read many times before is that "McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money": it was essentially a "reverse takeover" by McDonnell Douglas executives, and they remade the company to be more like McDonnell Douglas than pre-merger Boeing. Similarly the merger between McDonnell and Douglas in the '60s was a de facto McDonnell takeover. The Boeing Company such as it is today is basically McDonnell Aircraft masquerading as Boeing, having previously sucked all the life out of Douglas Aircraft along the way.
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Book suggestion if y'all haven't already...I'm half-way through Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing.
It's a great read! And horrifying.