Historical Context
The DC-10, 737 Max and the struggle to polish a tarnished airplane
What really happened to McDonnell Douglas and the DC-10 after it returned to service following its 1979...
Searching for 40-year old lessons for Boeing in the grounding of the DC-10
An eerily similar crash in Chicago 40-years ago holds lessons for Boeing and the 737 Max that...
Vestigial design issue clouds 737 Max crash investigations
A 53-year old idiosyncrasy in the 737's design is expected to become a focus of the inquests.
What the shape of Boeing’s 7J7 tells us about the 797
Back in the 1980s, Boeing found a small twin-aisle aircraft offers some unexpected benefits.
Pat Shanahan’s sharp turn from tactics to strategy
I covered Pat Shanahan's rise at Boeing for nearly a decade. Here's what I learned about him.
Revisiting The Sporty Game 36 years later
The definitive tale of the jetliner business.
Tracking 30 years of falling airline ticket prices
"Ultimately the flying consumer sets the value for this whole chain."