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I'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
by DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
I'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.
- JackFr 7y agoBased 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.
- monocasa 7y agoBoeing 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.
- ReptileMan 7y agoBoeing were not cutting corner with MAX. They were trying to fit square peg in a round hole. They tried to fit clean sheet design performance increase into age old mold. The fact that they mostly succeeded shows how amazing and talented engineers are there.