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Boeing didn't want to re-engine the 737

• mimixco 8y ago
  In retrospect, it looks like they should have gone with their original idea and built a new small airplane from a clean sheet design. It could have been fly by wire and included the important flight envelope protection controls that can't just be glommed-on to the older 737 design.
  • Gibbon1 8y ago
    That's not a bad point, it starts sounding like they needed to add features to a system that was never architected to handle them. Specially the MASC system needed more access to global state than was available in the module it was implemented in. Probably didn't want to do a clean sheet design because of the mess they were in with 787 Dreamliner.