Re:Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
by liketochill on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:39PM
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But only 1 angle of attack sensor on some models …
Re:Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
by Sakos on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:03PM
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No, but that's fine, because Boeing needs to make money upselling carriers on redundancy.
Re:Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
by fredoralive on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:31PM
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No, the 737 Max has 2 AoA sensors, it just used a bizarre “only use one at a time and ignore the other” approach to (non) redundancy.
Re:Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
by sigmoid10 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:05PM
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If only that was the worst design issue with the 737 Max... It is astonishing how Boeing got away with that clusterfuck of a plane. All because they didn't wan't to invent a new body and beat Airbus to market.
True enough for the extremely risk-averse FAA.
> there are lots of sensitive measurement devices, like a pitot tube, that I imagine could fail if a balloon hit it. (For reference, Aeroperu 603 was brought down by tape that wasn't removed from the plane.)
Tape over all of the multiply-redundant static ports on the aircraft. We don't treat tape as a critical threat to aircraft.
The 737-MAX has three pitot tubes and six static ports, deliberately placed on both sides of the aircraft. (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Boeing-737-NG-and-MAX-pr...)