Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Interesting find. Seems pretty simple though, certainly within the context of the complexity of the gear mechanism already. I'm not an engineer, but it just looks like one or two extra places to lubricate?
But the fact it's necessary is what boggles my mind. They've rounded the edges on the square peg so dang much, it's almost unrecognizable.
Originally Posted by
Sputnik
I am.
I'd call it a relatively elegant solution to a mind numbingly stupid problem that shouldn't exist.
As with all things Boeing, my concern is with execution more so than design. I wouldn't trust Boeing to make a sandwich right now.
Boeing made a huge mistake in destroying the 757 Tooling. This NB conundrum would thus been easily solved. Add some composties to the 757 airframe. New more efficient engines and update the flight deck instruments (modern PFD/ND etc). It wouldn't have been hard. The old engineers that ran the place before would have had a solution ready, but they were all tossed for the bean counters. Which then leads to the MAX debacle. Boeing did this to themselves really.