How Boeing Is Quietly Betting on a 'Brilliant' 39-Year Old Engineer—and Setting the Stage for a Turnaround

How Boeing is quietly betting on a 'brilliant' 39-year old engineer—and setting the stage for a turnaround

Brian Yutko wowed his peers at MIT and his colleagues at flying-taxi startup Wisk. But can he rebuild engineering excellence at Boeing?

How Boeing is quietly betting on a ‘brilliant’ 39-year old engineer—and setting the stage for a turnaround

As an aeronautics grad student at MIT in the 2010s, Brian Yutko was obsessed. He’d work deep into the night mining “black box” data and destination codes buried in antiquated computer languages like Fortran for obscure flight stats. He wowed his thesis advisor with his work on fuel efficiency.…