Comac engineers miscalculated the forces that would be placed on the engines
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#2I'm curious of COMAC's engineers are facing similar levels of pressure to cut corners as did Boeing's engineers while working on the 737 MAX.
Does anyone know if / why we should expect COMAC to avoid repeating Boeing's institutional failures?
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: I'm not assuming that Boeing and COMAC face the same kinds of pressure. I'm asking if they face similar levels of pressure to have a design ready for large-scale roll-out.
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#3What's a Comac?
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#4What's a Comac?
Basically the Chinese equivalent to Boeing or Airbus.
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Re: Comac engineers miscalculated the forces that would be placed on the engines
#6I'm curious of COMAC's engineers are facing similar levels of pressure to cut corners as did Boeing's engineers while working on the 737 MAX. Does anyone know if / why we should expect COMAC to avoid repeating Boeing's institutional failures? EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: I'm not assuming that Boeing and COMAC face the same kinds of pressure. I'm asking if they face similar levels of pressure to have a design ready for lar…
Based on the very different commercial, cultural and political constraints they operate under, I would imagine any institutional failure would probably be unique to COMAC and certainly not a repeat of Boeing.
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#7What's a Comac?
Literally the first paragraph of the article:
> BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - Development of China’s C919 single-aisle plane, already at least five years behind schedule, is going slower than expected, a dozen people familiar with the program told Reuters, as the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation (COMAC) struggles with a range of technical issues that have severely restricted test flights.
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#8Perhaps this is just a growing pain, and they’ll eventually figure it all out. And it’s a good thing they did extensive testing and caught this now, while it was still in development. This is where you are supposed to catch these errors.
Maybe this article was purposefully released to spread lies and defame COMAC’s reputation? Because that is what western journalism is pushing out these days about China.
But the bottom line, is that COMAC didn’t have 2 of their planes fall out of the sky, like Boeing did.
Re: Comac engineers miscalculated the forces that would be placed on the engines
#9I'm curious of COMAC's engineers are facing similar levels of pressure to cut corners as did Boeing's engineers while working on the 737 MAX. Does anyone know if / why we should expect COMAC to avoid repeating Boeing's institutional failures? EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: I'm not assuming that Boeing and COMAC face the same kinds of pressure. I'm asking if they face similar levels of pressure to have a design ready for lar…
Boeing was cutting corners to try and have to avoid pilots being required to certify on 737-MAX if they have certs for previous decades of 737s.
There's literally no way that any state flight administration would allow any previous certifications to apply to such a new airplane, so it's more just growing pains of a new design.
Re: Comac engineers miscalculated the forces that would be placed on the engines
#10Perhaps this is just a growing pain, and they’ll eventually figure it all out. And it’s a good thing they did extensive testing and caught this now, while it was still in development. This is where you are supposed to catch these errors. Maybe this article was purposefully released to spread lies and defame COMAC’s reputation? Because that is what western journalism is pushing out these days about China. But the bott…
I agree with you, I've seen articles like this on hacker news for the past 5 years about how China is failing and China is unable to produce what North America is capable of. And the interesting thing is yes, at first they fail. Why should we expect them to get it right the first time? You learn with practice, and mistakes, and testing. I guarantee eventually they will have a functioning aircraft. This is normal process, with a narrative western spin.