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It is very easy to make a new thing behave like the old thing for the standard use case. The problems lie all the corner cases. In some cases making the standar
by heisenbit 7y ago
It is very easy to make a new thing behave like the old thing for the standard use case. The problems lie all the corner cases. In some cases making the standard case even more perfect can make the corner cases even worse (737 MAX). These airplanes are complex and flying exposes them and their crew to wide variety of stresses.
Just the fact that these planes are getting longer and longer will have some side effects on how they handle. Maybe more caution is required when taking off, maybe the body vibrates very differently. While weight may be the same it is also further out which changes the handling dynamics. These make be small matters which may not matter until they do.
- Gwypaas 7y agoNot really. The 777 has Fly-By-Wire controls with all the envelope protection and redundancies that comes with that. I.e. failing safely but step by step offering less protections to the pilot the more it fails, until you are down to the few essentially mechanical ways of controlling the aircraft. The only reason a 777 felt like 777 is because it was programmed to be one. Compare this to the 737 MAX which still relies on mechanical linkages and two different flight computers with the pilot supposed to be the safety when they disagree, there any change introduces differences in the feeling and handling at the pilots hands. Question Boeing's recent engineering and similar all you want, but this is completely different.