Vaughn wrote:
...
So that's why the FAA itself did only a minority part of the 787's
certification work. If Boeing waited for them, airlines would still be
flying DC-3's and there would be no Boeing.
...

Nonsense!

The change to the regulations that allowed Boeing to specify
the engineers, rather than the FAA, took place just in time for
the 787, in 2005 thanks to the Bush administration. (Will that
stench never leave us?)

--bks