Originally Posted by
L39 Guy
And, for all we know, the B747-800 might have the odd bandaid too for some obscure issue just like the MAX.
All aircraft experimental flight test campaigns uncover issues which were not expected during the design of the aircraft, and require some sort of change to rectify. In the case of the 747-8, it was outboard aileron flutter, which was corrected with a *GASP* software fix. The engineering team was lauded for creating a software-only fix which required no hardware changes.
https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...iation-honors/