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Wasn't the design sound, except for the lack of hardware sensor redundancy and naively written software?
Why do they need to stop production and so on?
Why isn't it enough to retrofit all past and future models with enough hardware redundancy and create a properly written MCAS software? Wasn't the design sound, except for the lack of hardware sensor redundancy and naively written software? Why do they need to stop production and so on?
Started as an intern at Boeing in 1985. 34 year career down in flames. Ouch.
November 2019 New Yorker piece about what went wrong at Boeing https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-case-again... tl;dr engineers vs. accountants
Not convinced Boeing have learnt their lesson.
Started as an intern at Boeing in 1985. 34 year career down in flames. Ouch.
Being a public company CEO is a near-impossible job with so much out of your control, so I wouldn't say "down in flames". His legacy is tarnished, but the public has a short-term memory about these things.
Why isn't it enough to retrofit all past and future models with enough hardware redundancy and create a properly written MCAS software? Wasn't the design sound, except for the lack of hardware sensor redundancy and naively written software? Why do they need to stop production and so on?
How would you possibly know that? If they missed two serious issues what makes you think they didn't miss more?
Err, make that three serious issues: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/boeing-737-max-flaw/...
Edit: 4 serious issues if you count "identifying problems and not fixing them": https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/05/us/boeing-737-max-disagree-al...
Watched an aljazira documentary about falling standards at a Boeing factory a couple of years ago and been waiting to see if something like this would happen. Now they're gonna sacrifice a lamb, keep same corporate struture and philosophy, keep on making billions, remember to appologise even more next time.
Started as an intern at Boeing in 1985. 34 year career down in flames. Ouch.
Why isn't it enough to retrofit all past and future models with enough hardware redundancy and create a properly written MCAS software? Wasn't the design sound, except for the lack of hardware sensor redundancy and naively written software? Why do they need to stop production and so on?
What's so sound about a plane that stalls by default?