In the case of Nasa there was no fix for the STS, it turned out to be a flawed design and prone to failure, and in the end rather than attempt the impossible and fix NASA and redesign the vehicle, the US chose to entrust the crewed earth to LEO mission to the soviets or their successors who had a reliable process, and presumably abandon the miltary crewed LEO civilian missions entirely.
In the case of Boeing, as Loren Thompson’s piece points out, a million jobs in the US depend on Boeing. And the government is not allowed to step in and fix Boeing by enforcing regime change, and swapping out management, so they are reduced to grounding the planes and hope that Boeing will get the message and fix them, and improve the rpocess for the next design. Unfortunately Boeing believes that the tail can wag the dog, and that they can lobby their way out of a real fix, and bribe their customers to accept a fig leaf.
It is now pretty clear to all bystanders that Boeing will win. Capitalism has its adavantages and disadvantages, and that is why it has beeen historically more pleasant to live in the US than in the Soviet Union, unless you happened to be an astronaut and wanted to stay alive, and the job made you get into an STS that had a 2% chance of failure per mission. For a civilian transport, The 737 Max has a pretty bad statistic on its side now too, I understand that in a hard job market pilots can accept the risk it poses for themseves, but is it necessary to inflict this risk on the innocent passngers?
Edmund
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Clandestino
No can do. Already taken by Airbus Helicopters.
Kinda neatly explains the spin: "This MCAS, we previously told you nothing about, ıs merely a pitch feel modifier and absolutely not SAS or anti-stall device", doesn't it?
Oh, BTW, if you hang larger diameter engines a bit forward on the same old airframe, do you really expect that the pitch will be the only affected axis?
I'd say that
Loren Thompson's piece can be useful as a stark reminder how Richard Feynman was right when he gave his final verdict on STS-51-L catastrophe: