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2005-03-14 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-03-14 10:27:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Its a known issue on boards like airliners.net. Major issue of some big flame wars there too. Most of the threads I've seen on the subject say they believe its an Airbus manufacturing problem rather than a maintenance problem.

Posted by Valentine 2005-03-14 11:01:36 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:01:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Varadero, Cuba? Serves them right -- I'll bet some Cubano stole the nuts 'n bolts to repair his '56 Chevy Taxi.

Posted by .com 2005-03-14 11:08:33 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:08:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Another reason to fly Boeing.

Posted by RWV 2005-03-14 11:16:28 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:16:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going. At least that's what they used to say.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-14 11:21:54 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:21:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Unless it's the old Boeing 737. First Boeing with the rudder problems, now Airbus. If people were meant to fly....

Posted by Rafael 2005-03-14 11:28:18 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:28:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 First Boeing with the rudder problems, now Airbus.

With the 737 it was uncommanded rudder movements, instead of totally breaking off...

This development should give Boeing some pause to get their processes and inspection routines all ironed out; the 787 is going to employ widespread use of composites.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-14 12:57:47 PM|| 2005-03-14 12:57:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm not a pilot, but as a passenger I can tell you that it really annoys me when parts of the plane start falling off. And don't try to make up for it by tossing me an extra bag of peanuts.

Posted by Matt 2005-03-14 1:00:17 PM|| 2005-03-14 1:00:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Matt, you hush and stay in your seat. Be happy in your flying.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-03-14 1:26:25 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-03-14 1:26:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Boeing Aircraft are built to take a punch. May I remind the readers of the Aloha Airlines "Sunroof Special" and the 747 that lost its cargo door over the Pacific only to return to hawaii, even with a big gaping hole in its side? Think the Airbus can take an equal beating and keep on flying? Hardly.The Concorde went down because of a little bit of FOD.

Dont think for a second that all those years of building B-17's and B-29s didnt help add a bit to the engineering discipline in that company.

Ive always been suspicious of the NY Nov 2001 airbus crash, I could not for the life of me understand how that got tagged as "pilot error". This story just confirms my supicions.

Posted by Frank Martin 2005-03-14 2:29:47 PM|| [http://www.varifrank.com] 2005-03-14 2:29:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 When I fly, I never sleep. Because I KNOW if I don't watch, then engines will fall off.

Posted by Brett 2005-03-14 2:44:03 PM|| 2005-03-14 2:44:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I've seen gremlins on the wings

Posted by Willliam Shatner 2005-03-14 2:55:30 PM|| 2005-03-14 2:55:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "... an extra bag of peanuts."

They don't give peanuts anymore, just pretzels. :-(

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-03-14 3:01:30 PM|| 2005-03-14 3:01:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Did you see the Dinosaurs a couple weeks later Bill?

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-14 4:54:17 PM|| 2005-03-14 4:54:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 You need the peanuts so you can give them to the gremlins...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-03-14 7:51:37 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-03-14 7:51:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Yeah, cause everybody KNOWS dinosaurs can't eat peanuts.

The shells get stuck in their teeth and some of them are allergic ....

Posted by too true 2005-03-14 8:13:50 PM|| 2005-03-14 8:13:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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