[V_Terranova_Jr]

I'm an aerospace engineer who does work for the U.S. Government. When it comes to journalism, I'm a stickler for not oversimplifying the technical in attempt to make things understandable to the layperson or to support feeling-based arguments. I definitely agree the author has an unapologetic opinion/viewpoint in the writing, and I too was looking for where they oversimplified technical detail.

The sentence after "This alteration created a shift in the plane’s center of gravity pronounced enough that it raised a red flag when the MAX was still just a model plane about the size of an eagle, running tests in a wind tunnel" marks a bloc of technically sloppy oversimplification.

That criticism noted, I couldn't materially fault anything else in the writing and in fact I learned some things about my own industry. On the whole, it is a really valuable piece that I will be sharing with my colleagues.