Question? What's Boeing Next Big Thing?

Boeing was running rampant in the aviation world until the wheel flew off its juggernaut. Two 737 Max's crashed inside of six months and put the 777X project behind closed doors staying well out of sight. Having select Boeing employees doing the finalization to test flight work. It also caused the 797 into a dithering tailspin as no one then knew if the 797 projects would launch until Boeing got back on its feet and off its heels from the Max crashes. It looks like the 777X project, the 797 intended projects, and the 737 Max were all in some kind of "No Man's Land" in a short time span. Nothing is certain when its big plans will get back up and on Boeing's feet.

The FAA is doing its own damage control over the Boeing Max accidents as it delegated a usually nominal installation of an MCAS system on Boeing's shoulders before the accidents occurred later in service. Ouch, it looks suspiciously like a colluded relationship between the FAA and Boeing. There are other investigations needing clearing before Boeing can restart the 737 Max program for all its customers having grounded aircraft just sitting and not making the revenue for anybody. The problem presumed will take until Christmas to fix and resume business under new procedures. The 777X program will go off later in 2019 without having any setbacks. The Boeing inventory keeps flying without any mishaps and finally, the 797 is announced before year's end.

One big loss is Airbus will outproduce Boeing in 2019 making it the world's largest airplane producer. It will take Boeing two more years to reclaim the title of world's biggest when it will bring the 737 Max, 777X and the Embraer 190 to the market in 2021. Boeing will have to replace 737 Max sales canceled through uncertainty and production delays the upgrades are causing. Boeing may recover lost sales during this period if it can absolutely mitigate the MCAS problem as a noncontributor for future flight safety. Boeing's confidence in the market place and industry has reached its lowest point in the last 40 years. It has set back fully auto technology coming forward by about ten years.

Below are steps Boeing may be taking to regain the aviation high ground it once had.

1. Commit all hands on deck fix for the Max.
2. Win project Sunrise with the 777X and 787-9 as specializing for the mission
3. Bring the 797 to public reality once the 777X flies successfully during the first flight.

Boeing is now forced to bring the 797 into play with an effort for regaining any new and current customer's confidence for future sales consideration. While summarizing this year's tragic mishap that had occurred after both Lion Air and Ethiopian both lost their respective 737 Max 8's. The mishaps suggest a faulty MCAS sensor giving data inputs to automated control services for which pilots were unaware. 

Boeing has to establish that every system installed has a huge safety margin using duplicity of system controls, allowing the pilot never to be out of flying context from an automated system interaction. In other words, always allow functionality back to the pilot when systems can't work as intended.