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Momentum is finally building at Boeing with private investment firm 777 Partners agreeing to buy 24 737 MAX jets and taking options on a 60 additional.
The order follows purchases by Alaska Airlines, Virgin Australia, Ryanair and United Airlines.
According to Seeking Alpha, Miami-based 777 Partners will lease the 737-8s to its affiliated airlines that operate ultra-low-cost.
Boeing shares have risen to their highest level in a year fueled by news that a Southwest Airlines order for the MAX is also close.
And the key to that order may be the news that former 737 MAX chief engineer Ed Clark has returned to office.. Before joining Boeing in 2006, Ckrk held senior leadership positions at Southwest Airlines.
Clark is the fifth boss of the troubled show since 2018.
Putting the Boeing 737 MAX back into service after two tragic accidents that claimed 346 lives has been the most comprehensive aircraft reassessment since the comet tragedies of the early 1950s.
The numbers are extraordinary with 391,000 engineering and software man-hours, 1,847 simulator hours, 3,000 flight hours, 80 airlines, and 12 aviation regulators or organizations.
The result of that extraordinary global effort is an aircraft that is as safe as the industry can make it and reflects the milestone these accidents are for aviation.
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In fact, Boeing and the regulatory team have added new features designed to prevent incidents that have never happened.
The key to recertification has been Boeing’s engineering analysis of each system, not just the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS, which is a control law within the flight control system.
The MCAS system, responding to erroneous data from a single faulty sensor, sent the Lion Air and Ethiopian 737s on a dive and the pilots did not respond as expected.
Boeing has gone through a very extensive fault tree analysis of the entire flight control system and has made additional changes well beyond those requested.
Once this was done, there were a series of audits of their software, how it was developed, the requirements, the design, and how Boeing verified the software.
This was followed by four separate audits of the entire package.
Once marked, pilot training was next, and instead of seasoned pilots, Boeing and regulators sought out a broad mix of new pilots from 80 airlines.
Gone are the documented industry assumptions that have governed cabin designs for decades. Boeing wanted inexperienced pilots with minimal experience.
The top four regulators, from the US, Canada, Europe and Brazil, which approve commercial aircraft from Boeing, Bombardier, Airbus and Embraer, were used for the certification management team.
Along with the regulatory team, a Technical Advisory Board was also working, which was comprised of the FAA, the US Air Force, the US Department of Transportation.The TAB brought in a number of industry experts and former accident investigators to evaluate the two accidents and make recommendations to the FAA on what should be done in the future.
Another group, the Joint Authorities Technical Review, brought together other regulatory agencies from around the world who were continually briefed on all the findings and provided their input as well.
Pilot training for the 737 MAX has undergone a sea change and includes a full simulator session with recovery from a total stall, out of control stabilizer and manual trim at high speeds.
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