Originally Posted by
lateott
The additional irony was that the MCAS kludge was solely designed to apply resistance or "the feeling of backpressure" on the yoke. There are multiple alternative means to apply resistance to the controls, but they would have required additional testing, regulatory burden, and certification. Instead, Boeing designed a runaway trim system that crashed two loaded aircraft order to give a required "feel" to the yoke.
Not sure what was more stupid, the regulation or the design, but more humans died than were saved by it.
It was a tragic mess that best in practice engineering would have stopped multiple times during design.
I don't want to get further off the topic, so I'm gonna say, if your tankers have clothes and parts and tools left in their internal spaces, and you bid VC-25 at 20% (so far) of its actual cost, and your years delayed crew capsule is optimistically 2 years behind its most recent years delay, and people are randomly drilling holes in your aft pressure bulkheads, and after all that your door plugs are flying out of your brand new planes, you are not in control of your
poo.