The newer high efficiency engines are too big to fit under the wings.
The engineers told them it wouldn't work. The original plan was to
start working on designing a new plane, but they were afraid of losing
business to neo so the engineers were told to make it work. In order to
do this, they pushed the engines up and mostly in front of the wing
which pushed CG forward and moved center of thrust. This lead to a
plane that needs a much narrower flight envelope, i.e it doesn't want to
fly in a lot of attitudes where a real 737 is fine.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:48 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
Why do you believe it is inherently flawed?
It is a 737, the airframe with the best track record on the planet.
It is too bad they did not have a voting/contention algorithm
between the two angle of attack sensors and chose to only use one
as the authoritative source. That was a boneheaded coding
decision. The other sensor had live data on the network that was
there for the using.
It is too bad the pilots failed to absorb the training update
telling them to switch off the system when it was causing control
inputs that were obviously wrong.
It is too bad the pilots did not simply switch it off. I have
had runaway trim motors try to do this to me before and that is
something you learn during primary training.
Even then, you can recover almost all upsets with
“push-power-rudder-roll-climb”.
It is too bad that Boeing did not immediately tell operators to
cease using that system after the first crash.
But this is just one system amongst hundreds on the aircraft, all
tried and true for many years.
*From:* Carl Peterson
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:18 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT bad stock tips
The Max is inherently flawed and I'd generally say don't bet on
things with inherent flaws. Think F35 and how long it took to
get that kind of sort of right. The CG is too far forward. Perhaps
if they stretched the aft section a little and swept the
wings back a little but then it wouldn't be a 737 anymore.
I have an idea of building up a list of ISPs with rural exposure
and shorting them because Sarlink is going to blow up a lot of
their business model. In particular, I'd look for double play
ISPs with ARPU above about 75.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 9:39 PM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com>
wrote:
Boeing is going to have a good year. The MAX 737 saga is
coming to an end and their while system will be better
because of it. And then it will be forgotten. Just like VW
emissions testing...
Even so, I am going to stick with my super high priced index
fund. It is at a historical high and I still dumped more
money into it.
*From:* Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Monday, November 11, 2019 8:26 PM
*To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT bad stock tips
Something like 6 months ago my financial advisor convinced me
to sell my GM stock and buy Boeing. I’ve suspected I did
something stupid ever since. Getting out of GM was probably
OK, but I think Boeing has plenty of room to drop. I am
afraid investors may dump BA as end of year approaches to
clean up their portfolio or take tax losses, and in any case,
they are not looking like a well run company.
So if you want to double down on your Moviepass adventure,
you could buy a bunch of Boeing.
Or how about Frontier Communications? A bargain at less than
$1. 5 years ago they were at $100. Bloomberg article a
couple days ago says they are looking for a new CEO ahead of
an expected bankruptcy filing. Which was totally predictable
when they took on a mountain of debt to buy all the areas
that Verizon and AT&T didn’t want. It has to be bottoming
out. No where to go but up, right?
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
*Sent:* Monday, November 11, 2019 9:03 PM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* [AFMUG] OT bad stock tips
I am thinking of following up my strategic Moviepass
investment with one in PG&E. It has to be bottoming out. No
where to go but up, right?
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