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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) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I'll give AB a break. I'm sure they have the engineering talent to build it strong enough to make carrier landings. But then it would only carry 5 pax INLO 500. And that does not fit the design goal. So they push the fine line of weight vs load, just like everyone else. Sometimes they guess right, sometimes not. You just can't out engineer Murphy!
@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!
My 2cts worth on the 737 deal. Best I remember, YES they did know about it but figured it would be many years in the future, but if I remember right in one of the post mortems, it happened many years and land/takeoff cycles before they anticipated. That was one of them things they just flatly didn't know and basically made an educated guess, and it was wrong.
Wayne the fact that it happened stands..the problem is no one knows which serial numbers were effected. Just why it happened again reveals a serious problem in management and a weak leaderhip. Some where in that company is a group of people at the top who should be nowhere near ANY engineering company let alone aviation. In 7/8 years time Boeing is in for a busy time rebuilding many 737NGs and they will settle out of court.
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.