The 777-8 will seat up to 395 people, and the 777-9, up to 425 people, making it the world's biggest twin-engine jetliner.
The 777-8 will seat up to 395 people, and the 777-9, up to 425 people, making it the world's biggest twin-engine jetliner.
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“Boeing’s New 777-X’s Folding Wings, Are They Safe?”
Just don’t tell the pilots about them....and then they find out the hard way like they did with the 737 Max.
In the wake of two recent crashes seemingly caused by Boeing’s design decisions for their 737 Max 8 and Max 9 airplanes,
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That’s because the Fake News has only focused on Boeing and ignored the performance of the pilots.
They have had them for decades on milcraft.
I just wonder if Boeing can survive thd 737 Max thing. I think the public will refuse to fly on them ever. That is a LOT of inventory to ge restocked with no buyers.
I know orders have halted and production stopped. The inevitable lawsuits from airliners are already queuing up.
Next thing you know they’ll be putting slats and spoilers on the wings, too. And then there will be horizontal stabilizers that can move as a whole and cause the plane to crash if not set correctly.
I’m not worried. I’m confident that Boeing has some excellent software developers who can write code to detect improperly locked folding wings. Plus, I’m sure they will get thorough test pilot input.
"....this really pisses me off"
Ya think?
And while you're at it (securing those wings), don't forget to re-fuel. A catastrophic event might occur if we run out of gas mid-flight.
We can rest assured that their will be plenty of "fail-safes" to make sure the plane doesn't take off with having its wings secured.
Sheesh.
The more likely glitch is a pilot pulling up to a gate and forgetting to fold up the tips.
I’m sure there will be a sensor that reports wing position and all kinds of warnings from the aircraft if you were to try to initiate a takeoff with it out of position. Ditto a sensor for the locking pin. Further, I’m sure the locking pin is designed such that in flight, under load it cannot move in case you were stupid enough to try it. Once you land and start taxiing I’ll bet if you don’t fold the wings within a few seconds- maybe a couple dozen, you start getting all kinds of warnings well before you get a chance to approach the gate.
As safe as a Samsung folding phone.
“In the wake of two recent crashes seemingly caused by Boeing’s design decisions for their 737 Max 8 and Max 9 airplanes”
Actually that is a half truth unless you are using a very unspecific broad use of the term “design decisions”.
The half of that statement that is not true applies to the physical design, the integrity of the fuselage, wings and engine components to fly well together and sustain the aircraft’s integrity at the desired speeds and weight load.
The one half that is true is in the far too sophisticated, overly complex software designed to remove human decision making from having to control critical functions that jet aircraft pilots have been trained to control for decades, without that sophisticated software.
It was not that the plain could not fly and fly well without some of the overly sophisticated software they installed. It could have. But nearly all companies are being taken over by the arrogant technologists to whom the rest of the company is taught to bow as if the technologists were their high priests.
I wouldn’t worry about the wings. They come from Boeing’s outstanding engineers. The redesigned 777 should be as good as the redesigned 737 MAX. After all, the feds trust them enough that they don’t require full certification if the builder re-cycles the number from a different plane design.
Who ever heard of such a newfangled thing?
It'll never work ...
Consider me on board.
The folding wings on any aircraft are not reliable if they are not properly put in place before take off.
This looks like the referenced jet. Correction welcome.
Boeing 777X folding wingtips
Systems fail; and mass systems fail massively.
Stand by for bigger air disasters than ever before.