Posted on 09/30/2025 6:04:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Boeing is in the early stages of developing a new single-aisle airplane that would eventually replace the 737 MAX, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Rolls-Royce declined to comment, while Boeing did not respond to a Reuters' request for comment.
The 737 MAX entered service in 2017 but was grounded globally in 2019 after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. The incidents slashed Boeing's profits and triggered lawsuits, investigations, and a criminal probe by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Federal Aviation Administration lifted the grounding order in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last Friday, the FAA said it would allow the planemaker to issue airworthiness certificates for some 737 MAX jets, starting this week. This authority had been revoked in 2019 following the second fatal crash involving the model in Ethiopia.
Earlier this year, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg met with officials from Rolls-Royce Holdings in the UK to discuss a new engine for the aircraft, according to the WSJ report.
The U.S. planemaker has also been designing the flight deck of a new narrow-body aircraft, the report said, adding that development remains in the early planning phase, with final decisions yet to be made.
The planemaker told WSJ that its recovery plan remains on track, with priorities including the delivery of roughly 6,000 back-logged commercial airplanes and the certification of previously announced models.
Still, Boeing continues to face regulatory scrutiny.
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Aviation Ping!......................
maybe the replacement will have the possibility to glide to the ground in the event of total engine failure instead of just nose-diving like the 737 Max ...
They need to explain how they have totally revamped their engineering and quality control divisions before I will hold out hope for the new model.
737 platform began in 1967. It might be past the point for updates.
737 platform began in 1967. It might be past the point for updates.
737 platform began in 1967. It might be past the point for updates.
Get rid of the ‘flying cigar tube’ design.............
The cigar tube design has a lot of advantages over other designs in terms of stresses due pressurizing the cabin, and also egress during an emergency.
The 737 was a great plane until they started stretching and maxing it ,LOL
H1B Indians wrote the 737 MAX software.
“maybe the replacement will have the possibility to glide to the ground in the event of total engine failure instead of just nose-diving like the 737 Max ...”
Might want to get your planes straight there, mate.
Yeah, Boeing rode that “type rating” train long enough...time to get rid of that spinning trim wheel!!
“The cigar tube design has a lot of advantages over other designs in terms of stresses due pressurizing the cabin, and also egress during an emergency.”
Also the mostly uniform diameter through its length is cheaper to manufacture.
I don’t know why they continue to include passenger windows when a camera/monitor configuration is feasible.
More than "explain", demonstrate and confirm.
They should name the replacement “737 MAX DIVERSITY.”
Boeing's redesign of the 737 for use with turbofan engines, which put the center of gravity forward of the center of lift and compensated with software to fly "goofy-footed", should never have been approved.
It's one thing to fly an F-16, F-117, B-2 etc, which are unstable, it's another thing to fly commercial airliners that are unstable.
Of course, he knew which switch to flip, and where it was located. That only was possible with hours and hours of training and in simulators. If he had to open up the manual and then search for the symptoms, it would have been all over for the airplane and crew.
That wasn’t the problem with the Max, and any fixed-wing aircraft can glide. The 737 Max didn’t crash because of engine failure, it crashed because of the MCAS software erroneously continuing to trim nose-down, and the pilots not being trained on how it worked (many didn’t even know the system existed because Boeing didn’t describe its operation in the aircraft operating manual).
The Max was a mistake from the start. It’s long past time to create a clean sheet design to replace it.
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