Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

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 WalterBright on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:04AM (#20073570)

It has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_roll#Accidents

http://code7700.com/accident_kc-135r_63-8877.htm

http://www.failure-interactions.com/boeing---19-oct-1959.htm...

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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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