FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes

Re:FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes by lutorm on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:14AM (#20291700)

True, there are planes that compress the struts before retracting the gear for the gear to fit, so perhaps something like this could be designed for the 737 too? But that's increased complexity on a non-redundant part that you definitely don't want to fail, so it's not obvious how the trade comes out...

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Re:FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes by tropo on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:33AM (#20291782)

Not "perhaps". It actually was designed for the 737 MAX, which comes in 4 lengths. Only the long one gets the fancy gear.

Short video with gear model in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4IGl4OizM4

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/boeing-737-max-10-landing-gear...

Scroll down for a nice diagram: http://www.b737.org.uk/737max10.htm

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Re:FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes by VBprogrammer on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:37AM (#20292682)

To be fair a similar system on the Dash 8 Q400 has a pretty nasty habit of folding up on landing.

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