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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 766324" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>You know nothing about the MD11. I have talked with an engineer who helped<em> <strong>design it.</strong></em> From the get-go, it was a compromised aircraft that was inherently unsafe. In order to increase fuel efficiency, the engineers reduced the surface area of the tail, helping to create the Deathstar scenario I've talked about in high wind and/or crosswind situations. If you don't believe me, ask the pilots who fly it, and determine how much confidence they have in the plane in questionable weather situations. That's what happens when you try to apply 1990's technology to an airframe designed in the late 1960's (the DC-10, on which the MD11 is based). Your "analysis" that the problem lies in the air traffic control system is ill-informed and proves just how little you know about this airplane,and commercial aviation in general.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 766324, member: 12508"] You know nothing about the MD11. I have talked with an engineer who helped[I] [B]design it.[/B][/I] From the get-go, it was a compromised aircraft that was inherently unsafe. In order to increase fuel efficiency, the engineers reduced the surface area of the tail, helping to create the Deathstar scenario I've talked about in high wind and/or crosswind situations. If you don't believe me, ask the pilots who fly it, and determine how much confidence they have in the plane in questionable weather situations. That's what happens when you try to apply 1990's technology to an airframe designed in the late 1960's (the DC-10, on which the MD11 is based). Your "analysis" that the problem lies in the air traffic control system is ill-informed and proves just how little you know about this airplane,and commercial aviation in general. [/QUOTE]
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