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I fully agree that the risk tradeoffs made on these designs are highly unlikely to fail. The point is, though, that if they DO fail there IS NO redundancy. There aren't two jackscrew mechanisms. It's a single point of failure. Highly reliable single points of failure don't become redundant because of their high reliability -- they are still single points of failure. And sometimes those must be accepted -- even in safety critical systems.



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