{"id":442077,"date":"2026-05-31T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-737-max-tilt-upward-why\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:30:19","slug":"youre-not-crazy-the-boeing-737-max-does-tilt-upwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=442077","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Not Crazy: The Boeing 737 MAX Does Tilt Upwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254988\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737<\/span><\/span> was one of the most reliable and trusted aircraft in the world. A workhorse used by many operators worldwide, transporting millions of passengers every day. However, when its newest MAX variant entered service in 2017, experienced pilots began to notice a slight yet pronounced nose-up tendency. It initially seemed to be a minor, irrelevant to safety, inconvenience that could have been fixed manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A closer look at why the Boeing 737 MAX tilts upward and how larger engines disrupted the aerodynamics of the jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,718,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-max","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442078,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442077\/revisions\/442078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}