Originally Posted by typhoid
We do quite a lot of thinking (i.e. engineering) when designing aircraft you know
I don’t doubt it a minute, but accident reports show that 'quite a lot' does not prove to be always sufficient. Unexpected scenarios can provide interesting challenges or surprises, and a designer just cannot imagine all the possibilities.
Every time another sophisticated feature is brought up, there is an open door for new surprises. Those new Side Slip Angle probes seem to achieve a lot through the flight controls, I think it is worth asking now what if … or we may have to learn it the hard way later on.