Boeskov closes career with look to the future
To those outside Boeing, you are, and probably will be for a long time, associated most closely with the Boeing Business Jet.

To those outside Boeing, you are, and probably will be for a long time, associated most closely with the Boeing Business Jet. How did that happen?

At the time [1995], I was the head of product strategy and product development for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. What that meant was that we were looking at the future. . . where we should spend our product-development money, and it was a huge budget, over a billion dollars usually. I had a call from then president and now chairman Phil Condit, who asked, “Borge, is there any way we can make a good business jet out of the 737-600?”