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How many flyers are going to get on a 737 Max after Boeing puts out this firmware update?
Question I still don't quite get. From what I understand Boeing made a series of changes to 737 to compete with the Airbus 320 in terms of fuel efficiency. But those changes created a plane that was more likely to turn up and stall in certain cases. So they created the new ...
2/ system to push the nose down to prevent a stall. Now, I'm just your average semi-recovered aerophobe. But a propensity (even if very edge case one) to stall on take off seems like something that shld be addressed as a core design issue rather than ...
3/ something you address with a new-anti-stall software system. Right? What does aircraft design Twitter have to say about this? Of course, if you're going to create a new pilot override nose dive function you probably want to roll that new feature out carefully.
