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Old 25th September 2013 | 03:12
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Listen, I'm not exactly in the habit of defending Brand A, but.....
In the aftermath of the A300 vertical tail failure, Boeing evaluated what would happen with similar oscillatory rudder inputs on various Boeing airplanes. The results were not pretty

Boeing AFMs have subsequently been updated with words saying, euphemistically:
DON'T DO THAT!

So, unless you like potentially structurally failing the vertical tail and killing everyone on-board,
DON'T DO THAT!
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