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The Downfall of a Great American Airplane Company – An Insider's Perspective (airliners.net)
17 points by beams_of_light 892 days ago
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Pretty wild to look back on this two decades later and read all the replies dismissing this as union agitprop. I’m not sure I saw anything in the open letter that didn’t essentially come to pass or was in hindsight clearly hyperbolic.

At least, I suppose, the Boeing engineers don’t have to worry about the Boeing design center in Moscow anymore.

[2002]?
Hovering the mouse over the "21 years ago" timestamp shows it was posted on Sep 8th, 2003. :)
Drat, my pesky off-by-one bugs!