Boeing Co. 737 Max planes are seen at the company’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington. (Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The simulators in which pilots train to fly airliners are engineering marvels in themselves. Picture a squat pod raised 10 feet in the air and mounted on spider legs that let the whole contraption move up, down, left, right, forward, and back. To meet Federal Aviation Administration requirements, the pilots sitting inside must be shown a realistic representation of what they’d see outside a real cockpit, s...