Could Ford's Mulally fix Boeing's 787 woes?

Alan Mulally, the 64-year-old Ford Motor Co. (F) CEO, says he has no intention of retiring until Ford returns to sustained profitability -- which he believes will be 2011.

But the former Boeing (BA) executive may be one person who could turn around Boeing's troubled 787 Dreamliner aircraft, which has suffered five production schedule delays over two years (and some sources have recently told me could suffer even deeper delays). I spoke on-the-record yesterday with a Boeing insider who told me about Mulally's style and suggested he could do a better job than Boeing's current CEO.