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American Airlines Believes The Boeing 737 MAX Will Be Ready To Use Again By End Of Year

The Max has had it rough these last few months groundings and re-groundings and just now after what was obvious several months back Boeing announced a change at its leadership's Max top when it removed key leadership this week.

Gulf Times Reports

"Boeing’s 737 program manager, Eric Lindblad, will retire in a matter of weeks after roughly 12 months on the job, McAllister told employees in the memo.

Lindblad, a respected engineer who had also run the 777X wide-body program, has been with Boeing for about 34 years and had mentioned retiring last year, McAllister said.
Taking Lindblad’s place as the lead of the 737 program and the Renton, Washington, factory will be Mark Jenks, who has been leading Boeing’s potential new mid-market airplane project, McAllister said.

Jenks faces daunting challenges, including untangling a backlog of undelivered planes, getting production back on course for planned output increases, and finishing development of the 737 MAX 10, the largest Boeing single-aisle jet, sources said. The stakes are high as the 737 is the backbone of Boeing’s profits and must generate cash for new projects like the NMA. Described as a “quiet, get-on-and-do-it” engineer, Jenks spent half of his 36-year Boeing career on the 787 and an earlier alternative that was never launched, the Sonic Cruiser."

Boeing is finally shifting its efforts to what works for the airline maker and quietly letting loose of what is becoming a disastrous lack of decision making. Look for a December 737 Max relaunch as a stop gap single aisle offering.

The GE 9x had set a world's engine thrust record of 134,300 lbs thrust. Meaning it can set engine thrust with a reasonable thrust range for all flying conditions and make the GE 9X the most efficient big engine alive.  The GE 115B is rated at maximum thrust at 127,900 lbs. The G9X beats it by 6,000 lbs of thrust at 134,300 having a 10% fuel economy advantage over the GE 115B former engine.

The record-breaking test was done in 2017