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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Boeing 737 and 737 MAX software
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 14:50:21 +0100
Date: 2019-04-18T14:50:21+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lywojr8lsy.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2590d3d8-5f91-4f59-897e-e0c9b7e1b5ca@googlegroups.com

tranngocduong@gmail.com writes:

> In the crashed Ethiopian 302 aircraft, ~30 seconds before impact, the
> nose points 40 deg. toward ground, and the AoA indicates 75 deg. As 40
> + 75 = 115 > 90 deg., this would imply negative airspeed.

I think that if it implied anything it would be that the speed over the
ground was negative and the aircraft was descending extremely
rapidly. Neither of which is impossible.

But, as Maciej hs been saying, what makes you think that this
caluclation was ever performed? 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-18 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-05 21:16 Boeing 737 and 737 MAX software Paul Rubin
2019-04-06  1:16 ` Jere
2019-04-06 19:05   ` Paul Rubin
2019-04-18 22:04   ` Paul Rubin
2019-04-19  9:13     ` tranngocduong
2019-04-06 17:30 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-04-06 18:45   ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-28 23:45   ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-29  2:52     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-29  3:38       ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-29 16:29         ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-08-07  6:06     ` robin.vowels
2019-11-08  1:12   ` Paul Rubin
2019-11-08 15:32     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-11-18 11:16     ` robin.vowels
2019-11-18 15:32       ` Optikos
2019-04-12  7:46 ` tranngocduong
2019-04-12 22:15   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-04-17 17:27   ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-04-18  9:45     ` tranngocduong
2019-04-18 12:44       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-04-18 13:53         ` tranngocduong
2019-04-18 15:13           ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-18 16:21             ` tranngocduong
2019-04-18 18:20               ` Niklas Holsti
2019-04-20  0:29                 ` tranngocduong
2019-04-18 20:36               ` Randy Brukardt
2019-04-18 20:51                 ` Paul Rubin
2019-04-18 20:20             ` Paul Rubin
2019-04-18 16:39           ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-04-19  2:39             ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-04-22 19:36             ` Norman Worth
2019-04-28 18:27               ` russ lyttle
2019-04-18 13:50   ` Simon Wright [this message]
2019-04-18 15:07     ` tranngocduong
2019-05-05 14:29 ` robin.vowels
2019-05-06 13:54   ` robin.vowels
2019-05-06 15:12     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-08-07  5:51   ` robin.vowels

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