Posted on 03/25/2015 2:26:02 AM PDT by McGruff
Exactly. It is not that it is fly-by-wire. It is that the way the control laws are set up seems questionable. Without looking at the detailed design data I can’t speculate more than that, but their is a disturbing pattern of this sort of thing from airbuses.
another report indicates not a single passenger made any cell phone calls during that last 8 minute descent- to me that suggests everyone was unconscious- at least in the passenger cabin. If the pilots were aware enough of something wrong to adjust settings, it had to be fast- at 38K feet you lose consciousness very very fast and without any defense against it or even awareness it’s happening
“but it makes no sense unless the computer took over...eliminated the radio”
Whahahahahahaa.. you watch to many movies.
My father worked at Buick in Flint. So we always had new Buick cars and new GM trucks growing up. I always had an eye for the Fords, the first 1968 Mustang fastback I saw in person was best described as akin to out of body experiance. I only buy Fords now, the older the better.
“Think of all the small block Chevys shoehorned into Ford 3 window coupes. Now that is blasphemous. ; )~”
No it isn’t, it’s called and American Hot Rod. Without the merger of Early Ford cars with the Chevrolet V8, there would have been no hot rods after the Ford Flathead went away. Ditto for sprint cars.
There was other large and small block V8 American car engines back when . The 1950s saw Chrysler hemis of various different displacements for Chrysler Dodge and Desotos. They were cheap and used for hot rods and rail dragsters.
I Have owned 283 and 327 small block chevys and Chrysler and Ford engine cars of various displacement. Not all that impressed with the GM product. I currently (along with my 3 boys)have a 71 Cutlass with a 350 olds engine, a Dodge Aspen with a 318, a 72 Grand Torino with a 351 Cleveland (and a spare 351 Windsor engine) 2 of my boys have a pair of Aspen/Volares with super six slant six engines.
Not crazy about GM engineering. Too many proprietary tools needed to work on them and they don’t hold up any better nor are they faster
Than similar sized Fords or Mopars.
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