How Competition Tripped Up Boeing - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | March 2019 | Rush Limbaugh

[MeganC]

Any aircraft will descend when it runs out of fuel and you do not need an autopilot to do this.

Gravity will do it for you every single time.

[MeganC]

Thank you very much! (-:

[TexasGator]

You need an autopilot to fly level hours on end without touching the controls.

[OA5599]

Those were interesting articles. It explained why Asiana Flight 214 (”Wee Tu Lo/Som Ting Wong”) wasn’t counted.

Interesting to note that it took five years to certify the 737 MAX. Is that rushed?

Here are some comparative dates for the NEO and the (MAX)

NEO
Launch: 1 December 2010
First Flight: 25 September 2014 (1394 days)
Certification: 24 November 2015 (425 days)
First Delivery: 20 January 2016 (57 days)

MAX
Launch: 30 August 2011 - 272 days later
First Flight: 29 January 2016 (1613 days) - 491 days later
Certification: 8 March 2017 (404 days) - 470 days later
First Delivery: 6 May 2017 (59 days) - 472 days later

[OA5599]

As I understand their are two FCS, each supplied by one AOA sensor. The option was to have an alarm if the sensors were deviated from one another. Part of the fix was to make the sensor comparison mandatory.

I'm really not sure. So much contradictory information out there. (As you've seen spread on this very thread.) I should be content with waiting for the official report even if others are not. And if the MAX jets started flying again tomorrow, I personally wouldn't be afraid to fly on one.

[TexasGator]

This was from Boeing as I recall.