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Forum: Rumours & News

9th Mar 2013, 11:38

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FAA Grounds 787s

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Posted By quentinc

You are right. I don't want this but I also don't...

You are right. I don't want this but I also don't think its wise to have the smoke handling systems for the APU battery, require the APU to keep running... If that can't be achieved with the APU...

Forum: Rumours & News

9th Mar 2013, 09:41

Replies: 2,185

FAA Grounds 787s

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Posted By quentinc

So its not a surprise.... Engineers have been...

So its not a surprise.... Engineers have been designing systems, with the assumption that batteries are not going to fail. With the technology that we had... that was fine. Batteries didn't fail, so...

Forum: Rumours & News

9th Mar 2013, 08:29

Replies: 2,185

FAA Grounds 787s

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Posted By quentinc

APU Shutdown...

The fact that the APU shutdown because a battery had failed seems odd. The APU is there to generate power and was running... Clearly the expectation of battery failure was low in the engineer's mind...

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