The Boeing 737 Max is a grease fire. Boeing’s Edsel

Do you even fall apart in the air and nosedive into a fiery death, bro?

Hold my beer

Any truth to the idea that it’s purely a product of our current regulatory environment/framework?

What I’ve seen, says that makes it pretty much completely unfeasible to design and build a new plane from the ground up, such that they are forced to try to continually update a nearly 60 year old platform.

Talk to an osprey pilot and they'll tell you differently. They love flying them. There's stories of them being shot to hell and still safely landing. The aircraft isn't a bad one, but for some reason has been vilified by the media.

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how does a window just pop out of a commercial jet?

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Need to put some of day 200mph tape on there Baw.

You have zero clue.

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Does’t the Max use the same hull as the other 737 models?

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Just stretched, because someone somewhere thought cramming even more people into a 737 was a good idea.

God what a piece of shite. fricking steel death trap.

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What I’ve seen, says that makes it pretty much completely unfeasible to design and build a new plane from the ground up, such that they are forced to try to continually update a nearly 60 year old platform.

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The 737 Max was a stop gap to counter some of the Airbus models taking market. Boeing’s 787 is a ground up build.

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What I’ve seen, says that makes it pretty much completely unfeasible to design and build a new plane from the ground up, such that they are forced to try to continually update a nearly 60 year old platform

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It needed bigger engines for efficiency. The plane is already low to the ground. Raising the landing gear/height would have required much more expensive FAA approvals, so on the Max they shoved the engines out further in front of the wing, raised higher than ideal from a design standpoint. This increased the chances of control and stalling problems, hence MCAS software (and crashes when those systems failed or could not be overridden).

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Rather than designing an entirely new airframe, which would require a long and costly certification process as well as cumbersome pilot training for airlines, Boeing opted to update the 737 design by fitting larger and more fuel-efficient engines under its wings. But because of the relatively low stance of the airframe—a design choice intentionally introduced to make loading cargo without equipment easier—these large engines had to be shifted farther forward on the wings to allow them to fit. While solving the height problem, the new size and location of the engines created a tendency for the nose of the 737 MAX to pitch up during some phases of flight. To solve this new issue, Boeing engineers implemented the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS.

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