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WalterBrightyesterday at 10:18 PM1 replyview on HN

When I worked at Boeing, I talked about autoland systems with my lead engineer. He said the autoland was too perfect, as the airplanes would touch down at the same place every time.

This caused that place in the runway to suffer severe fatigue damage.


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psunavy03yesterday at 10:31 PM

IIRC, there was a similar problem on aircraft carrier flight decks, where they had to induce some randomized amount of dispersion to keep the tailhook from hitting the same spot over and over again.

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