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Boeing publishes plan for 'non-normal' 777X wingtip ops
A folding wing tip on a commercial airliner is never supposed to fail. With the first such mechanism scheduled to enter service on the 777X family in two years, Boeing set a goal to design a folding device so elegant and reliable that its workings would be as unnoticeable to the operators as flap tracks and thrust reversers today. (www.flightglobal.com) Más...
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This is one of the things I find so interesting and admirable about the aviation world: the philosophy of "build a system to be as reliable as possible, but still always have a clearly-defined backup plan for all its possible failure scenarios." My own industry (IT operations) could learn from this.
