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Why does an active MCAS system need to exist in order to tamp down on pitch up? I wonder if modifying the surface of the wing and or tail could achieve this. Eg
by sagebird 8y ago
Why does an active MCAS system need to exist in order to tamp down on pitch up? I wonder if modifying the surface of the wing and or tail could achieve this. Eg, make a computer model of the plane, verify that it captures the real pitch up behavior, and “evolve” a wing that counteracts it. I suppose the hard part is that we are searching for a perhaps complicated non-linear response, that needs to behave differently across speed, atmospheric conditions, pitch and turning. But maybe there are enough degrees of freedom when evolving a surface that it can capture it all?