I posted just to update my tag line.
I wonder if the instructions will be sent to the pilots this time?
I read an (opinion)) article earlier today that claimed the original 737 airframe design could no longer cope with the size, power and range design considerations of the latest models.
The only way to keep ahead of the curve was via software enhancements to the plane’s guidance system (like the MAX flight support package). The remarks were pretty negative in total..
If I can retrieve it, I’ll post the link later in the thread, unless someone else can find it in the meantime
And if they’re wrong, they’ll make a couple of more keystrokes, then reissue this press release.
Well, as long as they don’t fly it into a ‘high and dry’ airport ....
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/11/boeing-737-max-8-denver-airport/
OTOH, there will be no flight insurance available to purchase during the first 6-months of repaired 737 MAX flights...
This LINK is more about MH370 than the 737MAX but both are Boeing products.
Maybe to prove it, their flight tests will carry all the boeing top executives on the test jet.
Here’s hoping that in their rush to create a fix they haven’t introduced some other glitch as bad as, or worse than, the original.
I would still check any future flight i may take to see if its going to be a 737Max, if so I’ll change it.
Yes ... Good.
Now have the entire Boeing executive staff and their families take a round the world flight on one of their newly updated jet liners to prove everything is AOK.
With the 737 Max, the situation became critical. The engines on the original 737 had a fan diameter (that of the intake blades on the engine) of just 100 centimeters (40 inches); those planned for the 737 Max have 176 cm. That’s a centerline difference of well over 30 cm (a foot), and you couldn’t “ovalize” the intake enough to hang the new engines beneath the wing without scraping the ground. The solution was to extend the engine up and well in front of the wing. However, doing so also meant that the centerline of the engine’s thrust changed. Now, when the pilots applied power to the engine, the aircraft would have a significant propensity to “pitch up,” or raise its nose. The angle of attack is the angle between the wings and the airflow over the wings. Think of sticking your hand out of a car window on the highway. If your hand is level, you have a low angle of attack; if your hand is pitched up, you have a high angle of attack. When the angle of attack is great enough, the wing enters what’s called an aerodynamic stall. You can feel the same thing with your hand out the window: As you rotate your hand, your arm wants to move up like a wing more and more until you stall your hand, at which point your arm wants to flop down on the car door.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer
This plane is a dog. Aside from the software issues.
Apparently underpowered. Can’t take off from high hot fields!
That means having to restrict where it can fly.
Summer afternoon in Denver, Mexico City?
Just like the old propeller days.
Sad. Really disappointed in Boeing.
The CEO needs to be fired without a penny compensation.
Bring back the best ever.. The 757.
The Max isn’t fixable unless and until the FAA forces Boeing to re-certify it as a unique type.