@ Blink 182
I had forgotten about that one, I stand corrected, thank you.
@ Di_Vosh
All flying controls can be incorrectly rigged. All doors can be incorrectly rigged. Every moving piece of an aircraft which must be installed and subsequently adjusted to within certain parameters, can be incorrectly rigged. By your definition every aircraft in service has hundreds if not thousands of design failures.
To my mind a design failure is something which makes a component or system, when installed correctly, unfit for it's intended purpose. What is your definition exactly?
If a component is correctly installed, adjusted and all all necessary locking devices in place (lock wire, cotter pins etc.) how can that be a design failure?
I accept that in an ideal world everything would indeed be fool-proof but the world we live in is, as you know, far from ideal. That's why it's up to guys like you to fly the aircraft within design limits, and for us to maintain and repair aircraft in accordance with the procedures and limits defined by the manufacturers.
Last edited by Avionker; 29th May 2011 at 09:06.