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Comment by linuxftw

> MCAS is only required to maintain a positive slope to AoA - stick force curve.

You and other keeps parroting this line, I don't believe it to be true. MCAS is an anti-stall device, show me once source that says otherwise.

> Not because the aircraft is impossible to fly without it.

Not impossible, but possibly also not safe. The system was implemented to prevent stalls in the MAX 8 planes due to it's flight characteristics.

parent linuxftw 7 years ago

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