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Aircraft Expert on A380 Wing Issues: 747s Have Had Issues Too [VIDEO]
A noted aviation expert engineer with 50 years experience said that the wing crack issues that have garnered so much attention with Airbus’ A380 are fairly normal and that they will be resolved. (airnation.net) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
"A noted aviation expert engineer with 50 years experience" B747 has been around for 42 years..does not land like a navy jet OR flap its wings in the process..why not just come clean..the A388 needs another 100m of float along the runway for a nice gentle landing..why be soo coy about this?
This website wasn't around 42 years ago for us to bash anybody, and instantaneous communication was nowhere around 42 years ago. Hell, CNN just celebrated it's 25th birthday a couple of years back. 42 years ago most folks were still on black & white TV with 3 network channels. They still had the Newsreels at the Saturday afternoon matinees.
Nowadays, if Queen Elizabeth farts real loud, we know about it worldwide almost immediatly!
Nowadays, if Queen Elizabeth farts real loud, we know about it worldwide almost immediatly!
That's the GREAT thing Wayne..we have this internet..and until they ban people like me off of this site..not unknown at all..same ptincipal as N Korea and China internal affairs by the way..they can hide NOTHING. The idea is that we share what we know so we can help folks..NOT take 'em down. CIA does that stuff well enough.
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Hahaha yes I just saw that a couple days ago. Classic!
@Joseph Chan: Furthermore, i think one of the points that the article is trying to point out is, that with any engineering marvel (such as the 747 was when it first came out or the A380 today) there will be issues. Again, nothing is perfect. Also, at the time that the 747 was having it's issues, how many airframes had Boeing built up until that time? I would imagine that such an experienced aircraft manufacturer with decades of experience and thousands upon thousands of airframes built, would have built an airframe (the 747) that would not have cracking issues! Aside from the 747 issue, we have had the airframe issue with the 737 coming apart (SWA 737 last year i beleive) and Boeing not being transparent about a manufacturing flaw that they knew about, but only came out with when the SWA incident happened. Should i start on the 787 issue and how it was 3 years behind scehdule? Or the 747-8 with the rear fuel tank... why with all the marvels of technology today, could they not get that thing to work? In the end, they had to certify the plane without it! Boeing's KoolAid must be really good!
Hang on Alistair who are YOU to call the A388 an engineering marvel..?
Perhaps the word "marvel" is not the right word. Though, in my personal opinion, i do think that it is an engineering marvel to build an aircraft of this size the way Airbus has done it. I am reading this now: Airbus A380: Superjumbo of the 21st Century by Guy Norris and Mark Wagner. Very good book. It is not an assumption that it is an engineering marvel. though, someone saying that Airbus should not make any mistakes at all because of the technology they have on hand, is an assumption.