Re: "designed by clowns managed by monkeys" type comment sounds damning
The problem, though, is not the changed "aerodynamic nature", but the pressure to conceal that, so as to "common rate" the 737 Max with the 737NG.
Too often in these sorts of arm chair quarterback discussions it is assumed that there's something wrong with a 737-type airplane with different handling characteristics. I mean, if anyone thinks a RAAF Wedgetail E-7 with a honking great RADAR antenna bolted on top handles the same as Southwest flight 1169 from Oakland, they're clearly not qualified to comment!
So the problem is not the different handling, but the effort put into making customers (and particularly their line pilots) believe it behaved the same as the older models when it clearly didn't, and depended on a rather half-baked MCAS system to try to make it look like it did.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
