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by PNewling 385 days ago
These are all incredible stories. I appreciate you sharing them with us.

Could you link-to/tell-us more about the 727 affair? I've always had a fascination with autopilot (and autoland) systems, so I would love to read/hear more about this incident.
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WalterBright 385 days ago
That's all I know about it. I was told the tale by my lead engineer at Boeing, Erwin Schweitzer. One of the great things about working with such engineers is all the amazing stories. You won't find much information on this incident or the "mach tuck" one because they didn't crash.

But you might try googling "727 autopilot landing gear dive".

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WalterBright 385 days ago
> These are all incredible stories.

Thank you. I enjoy relating them. There are other airplane junkies who come to our monthly D Coffee Haus meeting, and we often wind up talking shop about airplane engineering.

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