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The wonderful times of software defined aircraft.

• LIV2 8y ago
  Agile methodologies come to life critical software, Boeing will be releasing a patch for the MCAS issue https://gizmodo.com/boeing-promises-to-release-software-update-for-737-max-1833224836 https://gizmodo.com/boeing-promises-to-release-software-upda... "Just ship it we will fix the bugs in the next iteration!"
  • xvf22 8y ago
    I think that farming out so much of the certification to the manufacturers can lead to problems as they work to make things "lean" when the easy gains have dried up.
• jcriddle4 8y ago
  It would be cool if someone published the software on the internet.
• shaki-dora 8y ago
  These times are, indeed, wonderful. From 1970 to today, air travel has increased tenfold, while fatalities have deccreased by the same factor of 10. Combined, your risk of dying on any given flight is only 1% of what it was in the hay day of stick-and-rudder pilot bros. Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety
  • varjag 8y ago
    Pretty sure 737-max did nothing to improve on the stats of aerodynamically stable versions 737.