What went wrong?

>>1045049
Planes no longer had to have 3 engines to fly over oceans.

ETOPS

>>1045049
A reasonably good aircraft for it's time. They hauled a lot passengers around for years and then were replaced by something better.

>>1045049
General Dynamics engineered a cargo hatch that opened outward

>>1045049
MD's ability to fuck things up.

>>1045289
Just like other cargo hatches of its time.

McDonnell Douglas then told convair "lol fix it yourself not my problem."

>>1045049
The B767 and B777 came into existence.

i miss hopping across the pond in the three holer
something super cozy about it
and those massive cockpit windows so fantastic

>>1045052
now we need four. The continents have been drifting apart.

Tectonic plates. Look it up.

>>1045049
>What went wrong?

Merger of a military aircraft manufacturer (McDonnell Aircraft) with a largely commercial manufacturer (Douglas Aircraft) got the commercial division fucked over.

In the aircraft biz, it's just too much fun to market to the DoD (hookers, cocaine, kickbacks, etc.) rather than commercial customers. So corporate concentrated on gov't contracts and let the commercial division die.

Same will happen to Boeing after McDonnell-Douglas took them over.