The jackscrew mechanism is not reliably redundant and needs to be made so. That is the judgment of Richard Witteman, who spent 41 years designing flight control actuators for military and commercial aircraft. He believes more rigorous attention to lubrication is only a partial response to prevent a repeat of...
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