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Originally Posted by ukwildcat
When the Boeing 777 was going through trials, one MAJOR flaw that came out was the "asymmetric thrust" feature. It was intended to make the aircraft easy to handle in the event of an engine failure.
The problem was that it worked SO WELL that pilots could not even tell that they HAD lost an engine.. And they decided that was NOT a good thing, no matter how proud the engineers were that they pulled it off.
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I'm not up on Aviation, but many years ago I was the product planning manager for a major aircraft engine manufacturer (which means GE, Pratt, or Rolls). I would have thought that they would have left that "feature" in the system and either made it into a manually activated option, or left it as automatic with an alarm/"pop the priority warning message to the display screen" operation.
12-11-2010, 07:52 PM
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