Gallery: Inside The Boeing 737-10 At Paris
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737-10 Flight Deck
Boeing has made several changes to the 737-10 flight deck--some visible and some within the airplane's avionics.
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New Switches For Nuisance Alerts
The most significant physical change is the addition of switches that pilots can use to disable nuisance stall-warning alerts. They are part of a package that adds a third source of angle of attack data to the airplane. The improvements will eventually find their way onto every 737 MAX.
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Common 737 MAX Cockpit
Boeing worked to keep the 737 MAX flight deck common across all four variants.
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Stick-shaker Stall Warning Updated
Before, pilots could not disable nuisance stall-warning alerts that make noise and vibrate the affected yoke without pulling a circuit breaker. The new switches alleviate this problem.
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Larger Displays
One change on the entire 737 MAX family from older 737s is larger primary flight displays.
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Water Tanks?
Among the fight test equipment onboard are water tanks. Moving water between them changes the airplane's center of gravity, which is part of any aircraft's flight-test regime.
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Electronics Racks
Racks of test equipment are carried around throughout flight test programs, recording and measuring myriad parameters that engineers need to evaluate and validate their work.
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Special Seats
Most test flights carry multiple flight-test engineers onboard. They monitor specific information in real time and, if necessary, change certain characteristics to help finish the tests.
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Testing Is Temporary
While the flight test equipment fills the 737-10's cabin, it is installed so it can later be removed and the aircraft can be sold to a customer for use in revenue service.
Boeing brought the 737-10, or MAX 10, back to the Paris Air Show in 2023. The aircraft is one of three in flight testing for FAA certification.