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Dutch roll (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 months ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Someone's been reading the news and doing background research.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Forewarned is forearmed. I figured I'd save a couple people 2.3 seconds if I threw this up here. Also, it wiggles. Look at that yaw!

[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Explain? Is this article just about banking a turn? Or....

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Recently, a boeing 737 max had an issue where it started dutch rolling in flight. The plane landed safely, but the FAA is investigating.

The dutch roll is an osculating motion that can happen in flight, and can be dangerous if not counteracted. Commercial airliners have a yaw damper which should prevent this from occurring, but something must have gone wrong because it did.

[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Oh wow. Thanks.

[–] thechadwick@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Also causing structural damage to the 737 Max in the process. Interested to hear how many bolts were left out of the yaw damper once the FAA incident report comes out.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago

Working gifs in a link preview? Never seen that before

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

I prefer Dutch Crunch for rolls.

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Link to the recent event: https://avherald.com/h?article=519ce679

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

So what's been happening in the skies?

[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I know some of those words.

[–] flying_mechanic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yaw damper is on MEL, deal with it