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by na85 1908 days ago
>At lower speeds such as you'd see during a landing a approach, the throttle setting of the 737 Max directly affects its pitch.

Any conventional airliner has this "flaw". If you are at low airspeed and you push the throttles forward, an A320 will exhibit nose-up pitch, too. It's a direct consequence of having giant engines slung kinda-sorta-underneath the wings of a low-wing monoplane.

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That's my point. The engine positioning is not an aerodynamic flaw, it's just a design change that makes the aircraft behave differently than the 737-shaped planes that came before it.