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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by WalterBright on Saturday June 01, 2019 @09:14PM (#20072855)
All jetliners are unstable at altitude in cruise, and require augmentation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw_damper

Aircraft design is a giant bag of compromises between desirable characteristics, most which are in conflict with each other.

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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by jngreenlee on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:52PM (#20073155)
Best-stated comment so far. We seem to forget that this whole problem exists in an edge domain only.
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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by ulfw on Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:36PM (#20073299)
an INOP yaw damper doesn’t cause a hull loss crash
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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by VBprogrammer on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:38AM (#20074259)
Fun fact. The original 737 actually had two yaw dampeners because they expected it to have diverging yaw stability. Just by chance the airframe is actually positively stable so can operate safely with no yaw dampeners so one was removed.
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