What are your thoughts on what’s going on? Was it really an engineering issue? Can anyone shed some 💡? Also what’s Boeing’s TC? Are engineers in Seattle? TC: 115
100% management issue.
This always
The fish stinks from the head first
They threw out the traditional values and brought in more "modern mindset and methodology".
There’s time and place for cutting corners. When people’s life depends on your product, I think that’s the line.
"Are engineers in Seattle?" Implying did they outsource critical engineering work to India? (Spoiler: they did)
Uh excuse me but I think all the services and teams we’ve outsourced to India are operationally fantastic and are designed extremely well ( /s )
Yeah like healthcare.gov! That was a huge success if you guys remember correctly.
Greed
Yeah this
Well, airbus A320 had enough space under the wing to start a new line with more efficient larger engine (A320 neo) with minimal redesign. The 737 didn’t have the space to do the same thing so a good engineering decision would have been to design a plane from scratch with bigger engine. Unfortunately, they decided to force through and to put larger engines on the existing 737 (roughly). But to do that, they had to move the engine forward which basically change the Cg. The Cg is supposed to be in the middle of the wing but instead it’s shifted forward which makes the plane unstable. It would have been a massive red flag to have this kind of thing on a early design. Tbh, i was working for Airbus when they made this decision and at the time we thought it was a mistake. It was 8 or 10 years ago. I guarantee you plenty of people know!
It sounds almost like they were following Amazon’s leadership principles.
They were in a rush to get out a long range at a cheaper cost. So they kept increasing the engine size without changing the basic flight structure. So they had to move the engines closer to the plane to avoid them hitting the runway. This screwed up the aerodynamics and the plane would go nose high. To avoid that they introduced an auto correction which will push the nose down. All good till now. But only when the auto correction malfunctioned. This caused the planes to crash in normal scenes.
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It was 100% engineering issue caused by greed of Boeing to compete with Airbus. They didn’t care if people could and did die
Did you release your independent analysis on the issue yet? I'd love to read your full report.
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