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Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:52PM (#21469347)
Military aircraft are designed to be unstable, so that they can perform fast, odd combat maneuvers. The flight computers are the only think keeping those things flying.

Civilian aircraft are designed to be super stable.

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Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system by torgian on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:54PM (#21470518)
This isn't necessarily true. Without stability you can't perform certain maneuvers. And the large aircraft are super stable.

That said, we take FOD and tool control very seriously. And the aircraft had 30 / 60 / 90 /365 day inspections that varied in detail

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Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system by hollerith on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:54PM (#21469368)
And aerodynamic stability would not have prevented the accident described in grandparent.
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