Boeing's re-engined 737 MAX

[launchsa]

Look up "Air Data Inertial Reference Unit" in Wikipeadia you will never fly in an Airbus again. At least the 777 has a Secondary Attitude Air Data Reference Unit

[SimHarrison]

@launchsa it has it's faults, but it's still safer than allowing the flight crew direct control of the aircraft.

[danlewis2344]

It the same plane all they changed was the engine with a smaller 787 engine

[figure261]

@danlewis2344 yea but they also have a new interior.........and that realy all they need to have the better single isle airplane.

[tuck15766]

I was on Lufthansa Flight 2904 when I was 13 years old. The crash was blamed as an aircraft fault, because the plane's brakes failed. I was also on Qantas flight 72 for work, were I had to go both to Singapore, and Perth. They still do not know what caused the computer problems. If its not Boeing, I'm not going.

[ARKIEX]

Fly By Wire !!! Boeing Pleaseee !

[HDMSFlight]

@ARKIEX WTF! That is the worst idea for Boeing, they want to actually stay an Piloted Aircraft ompany not a computer flown aricraft cmpany!

[ARKIEX]

@HDMSFlight

Imagine the increase in payload and efficiency if the control cables and chords are replaced...

I even heard the cockpit is same as NG's i.e nothing like ECAM or psch buttons like the 777 or 787.

If you look at the A320NEO they have improved lots of stuff. If boeing wants to be a big player in the market.. it will have to play big.

[roidroid]

uh, well i guess that feathering pattern on the surround of the engines must be new.

And what are those 2 side-by-side circles in the middle of the bottom of the fuselage?

[billyandika3158]

@roidroid those are the landing gear, haha. it's too bad they didn't have enough space to enclose the wheels in the fuselage while making the plane compact.

[LTF85199]

B737-Max lolz. Boeing is crying.... "so there ... you got new engines and that is the max we could do to this old man...

[TheGreatSteve]

Why are the wheels exposed?

[axpetre]

@TheGreatSteve The problem with putting bigger engines on the 737 is that there is very little clearance between the lower part of the engines and the runway. In order to adress this, the landing gear needs to be either redesigned and its height increased, or its attachements to the fuselage lowered. In case they opt for the latter (which it seems they did), the landing gear doors wouldn't be able to close, because they would hit the wheels. Hence the cutouts are necessary.

[pasley21]

@axpetre

The gear has always been exposed on 737's this is nothing new, still is areodynamic but saves the weight of a complex main gear door system, the bigger, lower engines just mean a longer main gear oleo as opposed to the ones on previous generation 737's

[axpetre]

@pasley21 Yes, you are correct. My bad.

[ikolkyo967]

@axpetre They are probally gonna raise plane higher