“OK. PLEASE CITE DESIGN FLAWS.”
Here you go:
>>> The automatic trim we described last week has a name, MCAS, or Maneuvering Characteristics Automation System.
It’s unique to the MAX because the 737 MAX no longer has the docile pitch characteristics of the 737NG at high Angles Of Attack (AOA). This is caused by the larger engine nacelles covering the higher bypass LEAP-1B engines.
The nacelles for the MAX are larger and placed higher and further forward of the wing, Figure 1.
By placing the nacelle further forward of the wing, it could be placed higher. Combined with a higher nose landing gear, which raises the nacelle further, the same ground clearance could be achieved for the nacelle as for the 737NG.
The drawback of a larger nacelle, placed further forward, is it destabilizes the aircraft in pitch. All objects on an aircraft placed ahead of the Center of Gravity (the line in Figure 2, around which the aircraft moves in pitch) will contribute to destabilize the aircraft in pitch. <<<
The changes in design DESTABILIZED the original 737 design and they took a successful design of aircraft and accidentally made a mess of it, then they created a computer system to compensate for an expensive botch of the design, AND THEN made it all worse by trying to keep all of this a virtual secret.
Boeing screwed the pooch on this one and people have died from their mistakes and the obvious and imperfect attempt at a cover-up.
ARTICLE SAYS manual is faulty.