Re:Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
by sschueller on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:10AM
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Right, but why didn't they just lift the aircraft higher off the ground to fit the larger engines.
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Re:Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
by salawat on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:16AM
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Because the gear has to be stowed!
The gear is retracted inboard, so lengthening was a non starter given the rapidly escalating hardware changes that would be required to the gear bays.
Once you start changing the fundamental structure of the air raft, you also start weakening your case for a common type certificate as well.