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Here's a wild guess: Through SpaceX design experience (rip apart, challenge all assumptions and rebuild better), Elon Musk (Falcon Aviation) will try to build a
by code51 3y ago
Here's a wild guess: Through SpaceX design experience (rip apart, challenge all assumptions and rebuild better), Elon Musk (Falcon Aviation) will try to build a far more efficient and safe alternative to existing 737s.
Falcon Aviation got hold of various aircraft, which I think they'll just reverse-engineer and throw out what's not working. It's like taking pretrained weights from an established LLM:
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-spacex-bought-a-boeing-737-with-strange-livery-2024-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-spacex-bought-a-b...
With Trump coming to power, Boeing's tarnished credibility will be a major issue to address. I'm expecting US government will incentivize this process. Boeing will lose good engineers out to this fresh competition.
- gabesullice 3y agoI love me some wild speculation, but it seems more likely that SpaceX needed a more capable jet to ferry large, critical parts from Hawthorne to Brownsville. Otherwise they'd need to go on a trailer. Now for my own wild speculation: SpaceX has shown renders of using Starship to do point to point passenger travel. And Elon appears to fixate on goals like that. My impression is that he would view reverse-engineering a passenger plane as a distraction for the company.