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Sure they have - they very family under discussion. Just because they have attempted to foist a polite fiction that it is a 737 variant doesn't mean that it ac

• filleduchaos 3y ago
  It is a 737 variant, though. That's precisely where the several serious problems come from.
  • jMyles 3y ago
    > It is a 737 variant In name only, and by dint of software cludges to prime the vividness of our ability to imagine that pilots needn't be separately type-rated. ...but we all know that if it weren't for MCAS (and by extension, if it weren't for Boeing's special seat at the FAA table), this wouldn't pass muster. (but yes, I think you and I are saying the same thing.)
    • filleduchaos 3y ago
      "In name only" is an interesting way to say "literally re-engined 737s with minor tweaks to the airframe, in line with an incremental development". Again, the whole reason the "software cludges" were implemented in the first place is precisely because it's more or less the same "hardware". The entire problem is that the 737 MAX family is in fact made up of 737s when they should have been redesigned from scratch. It's baffling to me how one could come to the conclusion that they aren't 737s.