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That is 1 hour 7 minutes into the video, not 1min 7 seconds. Must be using a BA pilot!

They will be doing a landing test in a couple of weeks.

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9 hours ago, jacko said:

That is 1 hour 7 minutes into the video, not 1min 7 seconds. Must be using a BA pilot!

They will be doing a landing test in a couple of weeks.

 

That's a fuck of a long flight!! I hope they have plenty of toilet rolls!!

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6 hours ago, keyman said:

 

That's a fuck of a long flight!! I hope they have plenty of toilet rolls!!

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I did see something interesting, the engines....

They are huge! something like 11 feet in diameter and they are mounted ahead of the wings, not underneath, similar to the new 737...

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1 hour ago, MrMango said:

I did see something interesting, the engines....

They are huge! something like 11 feet in diameter and they are mounted ahead of the wings, not underneath, similar to the new 737...

That's a scary thought.

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1 hour ago, midlifecrisis said:

That's a scary thought.

I did not imply that the bird was badly designed, but to point out that the 737 engine placement was not the root cause for its problems.

In the past, we have engine(s) mounted in the tail, nose, above the wings and in back of the cockpit and none had stability problems.

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1 hour ago, MrMango said:

I did not imply that the bird was badly designed, but to point out that the 737 engine placement was not the root cause for its problems.

In the past, we have engine(s) mounted in the tail, nose, above the wings and in back of the cockpit and none had stability problems.

It was the root cause.

737 no stability issues.

They moved the engines without other redesign (expensive).

They then expected the computer program to compensate for new instability. They stiil think they can fix a bad design with a computer program fix.

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