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		dingaling on Aug 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return o... When Lockheed left the civil aircraft market after the TriStar it was largely because the three-way competition with Boeing and McD was unviable. Given that, the subsequent merger of McD with Boeing should not have been approved.

9659 on Aug 24, 2024 [–]

The commercial aircraft part of McD was dead when the merger happened. The had a cash cow called the "MD-80", which was a derivative DC-9. That had stopped selling.

Boeing got more value out of the defense part of McD.

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