CaltechNerd wrote:
All of this is true. I believed in the company too, went out of my way to fly in Boeing planes. My time there convinced me it was an honorable competent company. And it was, at that time.
AND, the 737 Max knowingly violated engineering principles. One retired engineer said it looked like it was designed by monkeys. To accommodate the new, larger, heavier, clearly better engines, they had to change the position of the engines, lower and further forward. That destroyed the balance of the plane. It needed to be rethought. Instead, they installed a computer system that would over-ride the pilot and "correct" the attitude of the plane. The new system depended on a single sensor. All sensors can fail. The new system was not thoroughly explained to any pilots because the Boeing CEO worried that such a change might concern pilots which could slow sales. And likewise, pilots never flew a simulator with the new flight characteristics and the override because reprogramming simulators and retraining pilots costs a lot of money and that dampens sales.
All of this is true. I believed in the company to... (
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A company that once had a very reputable name.