Originally Posted by
visibility3miles
With MCAS concerns still looming large, this seems like a really bad time to request fewer tests.
I recall reading somewhere (although can't find it now) that Boeing tried to get fewer / no physical flight tests _during_ the MAX development, arguing that the computer modelling was so good that physical testing could be dispensed with. They weren't allowed to skip physical testing, and the modelling turned out to be b
cks, as a result MCAS got 4x more powerful, unlimited and at any-g, and the rest is history.
Ironically it might (accidentally) have turned out safer if they'd been allowed to do computer modelling only...