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To: jacknhoo
My God, this is so sad. Sounds like hacking the aircraft’s system.

Apparently no electronic hacking on this one.

Those "fuel cutoff" switches are very carefully mechanically designed, to require explicit action.

Each switch a small "ball" a the tip of the switch. To change positions, you:
1. have to pull the switch OUT, so that it
2. gets out of a detent for that switch position,
3. then you rotate it to the new position,
4. then let go and
5. make sure it settles down into the detent for the new position.

On top of that, they have metal blocker structures on the side of them to prevent accidental switching, like catching of the switches on clothing, bracelets, cufflinks, etc.

10 posted on 07/11/2025 4:18:55 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian

I worked at Boeing on Chinook helicopter flight controls. Aircraft are generally not hackable: there won’t be any physical or RF link that allows anyone outside to affect the flight control system. While there might be interfaces that can do this, those are for Boeing internal flight testing use only and wouldn’t be distributed to the customer.


12 posted on 07/11/2025 4:22:03 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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