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Old 20th Jul 2019, 02:42
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Originally Posted by gliderman2
How long is it going to take for Boeing to admit that moving the engines forward to accomodate bigger engines results in increasing amounts of lift forward of the CoG depending on AoA and that they were trying to address an engineering design issue with a software fix. Would it not have been better to use 757 type undercarriage and leave the engines under the wing?
B737 MAX gear swing.


B757 gear swing.


As you can see room is an issue, as the 757 gear is also longer the gear would need to be moved outboard - such changes might require "training" take time and cost money.

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