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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Someone's been reading the news and doing background research.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Forewarned is forearmed. I figured I'd save a couple people 2.3 seconds if I threw this up here. Also, it wiggles. Look at that yaw!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Explain? Is this article just about banking a turn? Or....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Recently, a boeing 737 max had an issue where it started dutch rolling in flight. The plane landed safely, but the FAA is investigating.

The dutch roll is an osculating motion that can happen in flight, and can be dangerous if not counteracted. Commercial airliners have a yaw damper which should prevent this from occurring, but something must have gone wrong because it did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh wow. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Also causing structural damage to the 737 Max in the process. Interested to hear how many bolts were left out of the yaw damper once the FAA incident report comes out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Working gifs in a link preview? Never seen that before

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I prefer Dutch Crunch for rolls.

[–] jxk 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

So what's been happening in the skies?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I know some of those words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yaw damper is on MEL, deal with it