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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by WalterBright on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:10PM (#38896962)
> This is flatly wrong.

Look up dutch roll, the active yaw damper that suppresses it, and the FAA requirement that all of them have a yaw damper installed.

Besides, the MAX is not unstable. All it was supposed to do was just nudge the nose down a bit to match the profile of the previous 737 jets.

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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by Dalewyn on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:33PM (#38897090)
>All jet airliners are aerodynamically unstable

>Besides, the MAX is not unstable.

You might want to address your seeming hypocrisy there.

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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by WalterBright on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:17PM (#38897374)
MCAS was not designed to address an instability issue.
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