Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?

Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by addicted44 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:51PM (#21840095)

The fact that Airbus are fly by wire doesn't mean they are "unstable".

They might be, but fly by wire does not imply that.

For the record, I don't believe Airbus plans are unstable in the way the MAX is, whose instability, from what I understand, came about because they were trying to fit larger engines on the original 737 frame (to prevent pilot retraining), and so had to move the wings higher.

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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by johannes1234321 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:04PM (#21840193)

In some avionics podcast A380 pilots described that that huge beast is a quite good glider. This makes sense since you want to reduce fuel usage and just enjoy smooth sailing.

Something like an F-16 however is less stable and requires constant adjustment of flaps etc. there dynamic properties of air to air dogfight are more important.

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