The Boeing 737-10 makes its first flight - Aerobuzz

FYI, Boeing has chosen the solution of telescopic undercarriage legs to avoid "tails strike" during takeoff. It smells of DIY like the famous MCAS. This is called American-style plastering. Airbus with its A321XLR is currently in a monopoly situation.

Jean-Mi we are not addressing the same subject! Thank you for bringing recreational pilots into the flight test back office! re-flying a machine, after the major failure of the ecosystem which seriously tarnished the public image of the firm. Whatever the technical issues observed during the test, I would have taken advantage of this opportunity to take a first step towards greater transparency, to offer details, to demonstrate that these unfortunate facts have produced improvements both technical and in the manufacturer's internal state of mind. Being so short feeds the conspiracy networks, which could even find here the proof that something is being hidden from us. I am not Boeing!

Regarding MCAS, the subject of so much attention (!), what Boeing says about it: https://www.boeing.com/737-max-updates/mcas/https://www.boeing.com/commercial /737max/737-max-software-updates.page

The MAX 10 is ordered in 600 copies. It is equipped with MCAS, reviewed and corrected from the (alas) famous initial model. only an evolution of the -8 and -9. Knowing itself under the suspicious gaze of the whole world, Boeing had to ensure maximum precautions before this first flight. Until then, nothing but normal and a success in gestation to measure up to the A321 Neo.

Does anyone know more about the background of this "engineering test pilot"? (who is not Boeing's Chief Test Pilot, by the way) Certainly a high quality person, but we would still like to know a little more about what she has done before, where she has worked, schools where she could have gone through... There I wonder, the internet seems to have been well cleaned. I had the same slight discomfort when Frank Santoni, former Chief Test Pilot of this company, came to brief us (and smoke us out a little, distorting one or two events that occurred in flight, with a good big bitter laugh on top of it, convinced that he was to come and express himself at the provincial cousins') He at least had a little background. There was also a leaked email exchange two years ago, which involved a Boeing "test pilot" about the 737 MAX scandal, and which seemed to me very light when it came to her background. . Basically, she said that she had gone to technical college, taken flying lessons, and one day at the company restaurant, at the café, the boss had told her "we need a female test pilot, that would you say? "Was it the same? In summary, could not the caliber of some of their crews explain certain recent disappointments of this box? And let's not say that it's because it's a woman that that annoys me, the string is worn – we have impressive ones in France in orange jumpsuits….

Indeed, the words of a test pilot after a first flight are more of a marketing communication than a technical report. The first flight of the A380 was filmed from inside the cockpit for a documentary . The test pilot declared that he felt a certain inertia in the controls and that this should be monitored during the following flights. heard from a test rider in an official statement.

On a slightly frank tone and with a feather of criticism (just amateur)… I find the tone of the declaration a little short and agreed: “…. All the results recorded are perfectly in line with what we had expected. “Just to think again that this machine, finally its base, has already accumulated m… (I hesitate to advance an order of magnitude) of HDV! Boeing had uncertainties about the realization of this "test" flight! So minimum service on the comm' and nothing will have filtered, if the essentials are gathered here. Is this the proof of no change corporate culture? But I'm probably getting ideas, this giant is accountable to its shareholders and addresses them as a priority. Enthusiasts and future pax can wait.