Re:Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll
by adolph on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:17AM
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Agreed. To the question at hand: “why 737-max’s ‘Dutch Roll’ wasn’t bigger news,” my conjecture is the term of art obscures the severity of the problem.
As a point of jargon, “Dutch Roll” is poor because the word roll within aeronautics could refer to an orientation movement or an acrobatic maneuver (and probably other things I don’t know about). The use of an ethnic/national identity as an adjective doesn’t help. Is “Dutch” associated at all with oscillations in two dimensions that are not intended by the pilot?
As a point of jargon, “Dutch Roll” is poor because the word roll within aeronautics could refer to an orientation movement or an acrobatic maneuver (and probably other things I don’t know about). The use of an ethnic/national identity as an adjective doesn’t help. Is “Dutch” associated at all with oscillations in two dimensions that are not intended by the pilot?