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Airbus A380 near VERTICAL Take-off - Paris Air Show 2015
Earlier this month, Boeing released a practice run of the Boeing 787-9 doing a magnificent beautiful almost vertical takeoff. Now, Airbus has done the same maneuver, this time using a A380. Two military pilots entered the cockpit of the Airbus A380 once again and made an unbelieveable flying display during the Paris Air Show 2015. (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I have worked on Boeing and Airbus.... Boeing is a much higher quality product by a long shot with much better engineering...
With respect, people are entitled to their opinion. An opinion different from yours is just that, an opinion and not necessarily 'bias'. This is an aviation website, not a publicity organ of Boeing or any other manufacturer, and I, at least, receive no compensation from any airline company.
US airlines buy aircraft that make economic sense, sometimes on company, sometimes another.
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US airlines buy aircraft that make economic sense, sometimes on company, sometimes another.
I hope this helps you.
Yes Joel all true. But just look through the comments here. I'm in Australia and I try not to be biased either way. Our airlines are flying fleets from both manufacturers. But calling the A380 a brick....or a big white dog tick....or that airbus has to do everything Boeing does.....hmmmmmm
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I will acknowledge authorship of AB380 as the great white dog tick. There was a video of one landing and taxiing and as it turned I was struck by the similarity to the shape of a tick I had just removed from my dog. Re: the posters If you right click on the poster name you can look at their profile, see how long they have been on FA and history of their posts and comments. sparkie624 for example has been an avaiation maintenance mechanic for decades and has worked on many aircraft - his 'bias' is a perspective based on years of skinning knuckles on the birds.
I will acknowledge authorship of AB380 as the great white dog tick. There was a video of one landing and taxiing and as it turned I was struck by the similarity to the shape of a tick I had just removed from my dog. Re: the posters If you right click on the poster name you can look at their profile, see how long they have been on FA and history of their posts and comments. sparkie624 for example has been an avaiation maintenance mechanic for decades and has worked on many aircraft - his 'bias' is a perspective based on years of skinning knuckles on the birds.
I am not biased... Working on the Airbus and Boeing are majorly different... The quality of build between a Boeing and and Airbus is major.... In maintaining both planes and looking at the problems of each of them, the boeing is a much better built plane.... One thing that Boeing does and no other aircraft manufacture has done is to call in Mechanics and Techs from all parts of the industry that works on their aircraft and simply has them to tell them what they like and don't like.... One thing with that that improved the 777's reliability was the relocation of the starter on its engines which was done to facilitate easier, faster, more reliable changes... Boeing knows things break and there fore works in reproduction to make things better....
On the other hand, Airbus designs all of their planes on a computer much like a child on an Etch-A-Sketch and hope they get it right, and don''t even trust the pilots to fly correctly there for the pilot by default settings does not have full authority over the plane as was proven in the Air France Airshow disaster (Flt 296).... One big item that I have against the Airbus is its Flight Control System... Not that it is fly by wire, but the fact it is flown by Joy Stick.... Again noting Air France 447 when the pitot tubes froze over and the copilot was holding the stick all the way back not recognizing he was in a full stall, all the time holding the Joy Stick full back.... If they would have a feed back forcing the other stick to follow the other crew member, or even a display on their screens showing the flight control position, and being in that position for such a long period of time a message should appeared as a warning...
I know there have been issues with crew errors on Boeing, but they have never had a total pitot system freeze up because of a design flaw, they have never had a control movement by one flight crew member that the other flight crew member did not know about...
I am not being biased, I am speaking not only from my experiences, but experiences that have happened to others... The basic concept of Boeing is Pilot has final authority, Airbus is the opposite stating that the computers should have final authority... Where I love the use of computers, I do not want them in charge of my life...
On the other hand, Airbus designs all of their planes on a computer much like a child on an Etch-A-Sketch and hope they get it right, and don''t even trust the pilots to fly correctly there for the pilot by default settings does not have full authority over the plane as was proven in the Air France Airshow disaster (Flt 296).... One big item that I have against the Airbus is its Flight Control System... Not that it is fly by wire, but the fact it is flown by Joy Stick.... Again noting Air France 447 when the pitot tubes froze over and the copilot was holding the stick all the way back not recognizing he was in a full stall, all the time holding the Joy Stick full back.... If they would have a feed back forcing the other stick to follow the other crew member, or even a display on their screens showing the flight control position, and being in that position for such a long period of time a message should appeared as a warning...
I know there have been issues with crew errors on Boeing, but they have never had a total pitot system freeze up because of a design flaw, they have never had a control movement by one flight crew member that the other flight crew member did not know about...
I am not being biased, I am speaking not only from my experiences, but experiences that have happened to others... The basic concept of Boeing is Pilot has final authority, Airbus is the opposite stating that the computers should have final authority... Where I love the use of computers, I do not want them in charge of my life...
As evidenced by the crash of the Airbus A400M. What's wrong with positive linkage?
Airbus themselves admitted it was there fault due to a computer software issue... Never said anything was wrong with Positive Linkage... What I said is that I do not like a computer ever having total control even to the point of over riding the captain.
Sorry, poor word usage on my part.
Is it a Boeing publicity machine? Are you all paid by Boeing?
Both companies build fantastic airliners, and why do so many US airlines now fly Airbus products?