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Forum: Rumours & News
21st May 2013, 05:36
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Is that Walt Gillette, former head of the 787...

Is that Walt Gillette, former head of the 787 design team?
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Apr 2013, 11:27
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

comfortable experience in this cool plane...

Cool Guys, that's an unfortunate choice of words. The 787 Spitfire is not cool, it's fuming hot, that's the problem.

It is for now a fairly advanced plane that will one day be consigned to...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Apr 2013, 13:31
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Actually, 31 May (a domestic flight) has been scheduled.

If I'm taking a Dreadliner, I'd prefer it to be June 31st.
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Apr 2013, 09:45
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Refusing to fly the Dreadliner

I guess they'd either be ignored or invited to give a presentation to flight safety management explaining what they know that the FAA doesn't.
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Forum: Rumours & News
8th Apr 2013, 15:45
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

GE and RR have PiPs in progress

Yep, PiPs come out when you squeeze the performance guarantees.
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2013, 10:42
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

The casing etc is largely for public perception. It will probably even be removed

This is becoming more and more like Boeing+FAA vs Public+NTSB.

With Boeing betting that the public don't care.
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2013, 10:18
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

whatdoesthisbuttondo

"The fuel savings, engineering monitoring functions and passenger comfort make this an easy choice for them."

That's not how airlines choose planes. The things that count are cash going out and...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Apr 2013, 08:14
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Double engine failure hours from land

It's understood we're talking about two engines failing due to independent causes.
There's a calculated probabilty that this will happen one day. It's not, as barit would like, a non-issue.
If it...
Forum: Rumours & News
3rd Apr 2013, 20:57
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

5 decades of experience taught us this is a total non-issue

The trans-oceanic two engines failure could happen tomorrow. We've just been fortunate so far.
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Apr 2013, 21:04
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

we (at Boeing) were shown a graph of commercial aircraft production, Boeing vs Airbus

EEngr: at the same time Airbus management was showing staff the same chart. The message: less hiring & firing means better qualified, more experienced, workers and superior quality for the customer.
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2013, 13:42
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

"McNerney acknowledges that dealing with the 787...

"McNerney acknowledges that dealing with the 787 problems has been a "frustrating experience", but says that FAA regulators who had put the airframer "through the paces" had the country's best...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Mar 2013, 15:32
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Boeing is watching what's happening on the old continent ...

Airbus has installed on the first flight-test A350 XWB its two flight-ready Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines and is also installing the new Honeywell HGT1700 APU.

"With the installation of its...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2013, 22:09
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

gas path, I presume you're joking

The FireBox is the worst PR anyone could imagine.

180 mins with an inferno blazing under seat 30H?

PR? Ho Ho.
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2013, 16:50
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Max

I don't know whether this can be called "working":

787 Battery Tests | Video | The Seattle Times (http://video.seattletimes.com/2245764552001/)
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Mar 2013, 15:03
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

They need to test the resistance of the composite...

They need to test the resistance of the composite structure to a red hot firebox.

Go out to mid-Pacific, light up the firebox, and fly home. Volunteers?
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Mar 2013, 13:16
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Someone at Boeing thinks the same of this "solution" as I do

They put a hidden red nose on the Firebox.

http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u622/oldairbus/K3_zpsd84c90e6.jpg
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2013, 13:45
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Phil Condit

Was the only Boeing boss in recent times that Airbus respected and was afraid of. Same goes for his beautiful baby the 777.

The rest, "managers" and products, (747-8, 737Max & 787) are poor,...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Mar 2013, 06:49
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

The name of The Thing

I suggest we don't follow Boeing's choice of "battery containment box" or "battery enclosure" but call it what it is: FIRE BOX.
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Mar 2013, 13:29
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Boeing's latest proposal ..

The dog sits on the firebox. If he yelps, they've got a problem.

note: this fix is SPA approved. During ETOPS sectors he gets fed and if he's
lucky he lives to work another day. Unlike the...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Mar 2013, 08:29
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

If a 787 ever does go missing over the ocean, at...

If a 787 ever does go missing over the ocean, at least Boeing can say "we know the cause, that damn battery". No need to spend millions on a search like AF447.
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2013, 14:11
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

I can't believe Boeing is dumb enough to fly a...

I can't believe Boeing is dumb enough to fly a quick fix which only passes the FAA after more than the usual number of free lunches.

If that happens I hope the NTSB has the guts to say "this is...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Mar 2013, 20:26
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

FlightPathOBN

I respect your view but what does "GOING FORWARD" mean in your first line? To me it means nothing.
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Forum: Rumours & News
5th Mar 2013, 13:14
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

I get a box that invites me to "register for...

I get a box that invites me to "register for free".
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Mar 2013, 08:24
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

FlightPathOBN

"With an engineered product, one barely needs a sales department, as the product sells itself on the engineering."

How I wish that were true. In reality the airlines set up a competition between...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Mar 2013, 06:52
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Momoe

"you can't expect any certifying agency to look at this incident and somehow extrapolate that the battery design is suspect."


No, but there is a link which the FAA is aware of: the behaviour...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Feb 2013, 12:51
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Test a battery on fire on an actual flight

I think the test should be: fly around for 180 minutes after a fire and/or explosion is confirmed to have occurred inside the steel "safety box".

Any volunteers?
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Feb 2013, 10:19
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Most of us would need 30 seconds.

Most of us would need 30 seconds.
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Feb 2013, 17:33
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

ImageGear

Once upon a time a young version of me said in a meeting with Japanese that something we were proposing was "good enough".

I was swiftly told that for the Japanese it's either right or wrong. I...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Feb 2013, 09:13
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

I still can't believe that Boeing, once top dog,...

I still can't believe that Boeing, once top dog, can be that stupid.

They have been handed enormous good luck: they did not have to drag the debris of ANA flight 692 out of Japan's Inland Sea.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Feb 2013, 16:12
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

This should not be a consideration for Boeing,...

This should not be a consideration for Boeing, but ... it would be somewhat embarassing if Airbus gets the A350 in the air when the 787 is still grounded.
That gives them about four months.
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Feb 2013, 08:48
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Extracts from the FAA 787 Special Conditions

"As a result of this extensive use of a new construction material,
the fuselage cannot be assumed to have the fire resistance previously
afforded by aluminum during the in-flight fire scenario...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Feb 2013, 07:55
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

"A special announcement for the passenger in seat...

"A special announcement for the passenger in seat 30H: there has been a battery explosion under the floor near you and there is no extinguishing system installed.
However there is no cause for...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Feb 2013, 21:23
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

crowded meeting rooms deciding minor details ...

Leaving aside national politics, if I were to tell you that Airbus does not have a committee / hierarchy culture I'd be spilling the beans on their success. Boeing knows that.
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Feb 2013, 13:31
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

Many moons ago I knew people who worked for...

Many moons ago I knew people who worked for Airbus. And a few who worked for Boeing.

The Boeing guys, who worked under a strict hierarchy, were amazed that even junior Airbus people had the...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Jan 2013, 12:55
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,032,246
Posted By toffeez

To put the weight issue into perspective ...

Between October 2005 and August 2008 the Manufacturer's Empty Weight of the 787-8 increased by 12500 lb.
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