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2006-07-23 Europe

Airbus A380 sumo jet hit by new problems on fuselage

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Posted by anonymous2u 2006-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sometimes I wonder if the Airbus graphic should be a lemon......

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-07-23 00:59|| 2006-07-23 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 no, because there are "lemon laws" which imply that there are lemons. Thus the term lemon implies that you have received a car that is malfunctioning contrary to the way it is expected to function.

Thus the vulture graphic is dead on.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-23 01:07|| 2006-07-23 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought it was a turkey.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-23 01:55|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-23 01:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Um, so what exactly is the news here? That there are (or were, because it's not clear) problems during flight trials of a new aircraft? Whoopee.

Posted by Slemble Glirt6389 2006-07-23 02:38|| 2006-07-23 02:38|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a turkey, I clipped it from a web site I found via Google. Useful for any Airbus story, I think. Fred's the one who calls the A380 the 'sumo' jet; the original story calls it the 'super' jet.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-07-23 03:11|| 2006-07-23 03:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah...turkey. So it is... And I suppose that makes me one too.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-23 06:02|| 2006-07-23 06:02|| Front Page Top

#7 There were reports in March that Airbus was reinforcing section 19. If it is the second go around, then not good at all. BTW, section 19 contains the tail actuators (and therefore takes the strain of vertical and horizontal control surface movements), pressure bulkhead and APU. Kinda important.

The other big issue I haven't heard much of was a wing failure test that only stood up to 147% of max load. I think the FAA requires 150%. So Airbus must design extra support to an already overweight plane or reduce payload by about 5%.

Posted by ed 2006-07-23 10:04|| 2006-07-23 10:04|| Front Page Top

#8 We can't expect their brave pilots to fly in a plane that's not properly armored, now can we?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-23 10:41|| 2006-07-23 10:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Likely false alarm from Der Spiegel.
Airbus says A380 fuselage fault long since resolved
Airbus said that a fault discovered in the fuselage of its A380 super jumbo in the spring has been long since resolved, saying it was "astonished" at how the issue was "blown up" in a German magazine article.

The fault is an "old issue which has been fixed", with the company carrying out "reinforcements on the structure, and there is absolutely nothing abnormal about that," a spokeswoman for the European aerospace group said.

Posted by ed 2006-07-23 10:48|| 2006-07-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

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