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2007-09-18 Europe
Airbus A380 grounded during air show in Hamburg
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Posted by Steve White 2007-09-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Hah hah. [/N. Muntz]
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-18 01:51||   2007-09-18 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 is a test flight for it. It has been under particularly heavy strain.

Poor thing's nerves are shot, what with the nasty snarking about it and all. You bad people go home and leave this poor plane alone.

There, there ......
Posted by lotp 2007-09-18 06:14||   2007-09-18 06:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Airbus has a spokesman named prang? Delicious...
Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek  2007-09-18 08:54||   2007-09-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not a problem.

Defect in the landing gear of an airplane? Ah, that's no big deal...
Posted by tu3031 2007-09-18 09:25||   2007-09-18 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Landing without landing gear is a little tricky, but do-able (and you WILL land.) Taking off without takeoff gear is impossible.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-09-18 12:37||   2007-09-18 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Hot air balloons do it all the time.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-09-18 13:01||   2007-09-18 13:01|| Front Page Top

#7 And in the interest of fair and balanced reporting, in today's Seatlle Times ( and also on Drudge) there is the report of a fired Boeing Engineer that saya the 787 is unsafe in a crash. ( well no shit Sherlock) The carbon fiber would burn, give off toxic fumes and the small carbon particles would be inhaled by ( the supposedly still living victims) and cause lung damage.
The plastic fuselage would not crumple and absorb energy like an aluminum one but would shatter and expose the pax to more energy.
so i guess maybe landing gear is important (notice it is not called take off gear)
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-18 14:52||   2007-09-18 14:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Landing without landing gear is a little tricky, but do-able

Landing without landing gear is trivial. The difficult part is about not killing oneself.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2007-09-18 16:44||   2007-09-18 16:44|| Front Page Top

#9 And in the interest of fair and balanced reporting,

hahahahalmao
Posted by Snakes Flaviper7821 2007-09-18 17:43||   2007-09-18 17:43|| Front Page Top

#10 An old aviation maxim goes something like this: "Any landing you can walk away from is a good one; a landing whereby you can re-use the airplane is a great one."
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-18 17:44||   2007-09-18 17:44|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-09-18 18:57||   2007-09-18 18:57|| Front Page Top

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