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Lengthening the landing gear is a non-trivial design change. It might be more feasible to shorten the fuselage on a 757 than reengineer the gear on the MAX.
by rootusrootus 6y ago
Lengthening the landing gear is a non-trivial design change. It might be more feasible to shorten the fuselage on a 757 than reengineer the gear on the MAX.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThe point is not “raising the vehicle height would be cheap”; it obviously wouldn’t. The point is that one of the key requirements was maintaining the 737 type certification. If that requirement was thrown out, they would’ve made a better airplane that wouldn’t have sold anywhere near as well as the MAX8.
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