Re:Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
by JaRail on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:12PM
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You can check it all you want. That won't change the physics of its dynamically unstable design.
Re:Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
by kayfox on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:49PM
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Its a stable design.
The force MCAS is correcting is a lightening of control forces near a stall. This is not allowed per FARs, so they added MCAS to force some extra force.
It will fly just fine with the computers turned off.
Re:Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
by missosoup on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:46PM
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The max 8 doesn't have an inherently unstable design. This meme now only lives in the minds of the most ignorant out-of-the-loop individuals who wilfully consume FUD and ignore expert evidence.
If the airframe is truly unsafe, then it'll never fly again. But everyone knows it will. Because it isn't.
The only thing that'll happen is the max 8 will probably require a new type rating which will hurt airline economy a bit. Other than that, you'll be flying in it a year from now and have forgotten all about this.
Yeah you will. Good luck selectively avoiding the most popular international route plane. Historically, people have been very quick to forget mishaps with particular airframes and revert to flying the most convenient/economical routes.
And by the time it's flying again, it will be hands down the safest plane that's being operated because every minute detail of it will have been checked with far more scrutiny than any other newly launched platform.