@deSitter
You really are bitter, aren't you? What part of "pilots were in the loop during requirements gathering" are you failing to understand?
@gums
I have to say, I'm not seeing "childlike faith" in the software or protections. Everyone here is saying that training for failure modes (including law reversion) needs to happen. Loss of airmanship skills is a training issue that needs to be addressed.
Originally Posted by
Graybeard
When was the last time Boeing or Douglas lost a plane in Flight Test?
Douglas effectively wrote off an MD-80 in flight testing (the infamous high VS landing that snapped the tail assembly off). Douglas also put an aircraft (DC-10) into service with a known design flaw that they discovered in testing and simply ignored in the rush to beat Lockheed to market - that little doozy killed over 200 people. Boeing had exactly the same problem should pitots be blocked on the 757.
All this US/Franco willy-waving gets us nowhere.