That article has been written by a very reputable journalist from the LA Times and it has earlier been reported upon by other equally reputable news organizations.
Ah yes...LA times...Seattle times reputable news organizations... reputation for any story which is anti EU, anti EADS, anti airbus anti WTO, and pro Boeing.
Your status, Wombat, as an Airbus rep and/or retained apologist is equally obvious.
Arr yes..personal attack again the man...not the topic...good form old chap
Mangan did advise Airbus - that is how they first became "aware". Keep dragging those herrings - but it won't change the underlying facts.
I suppose you have evidence that he advised Airbus...he never worked for them.
Yourself and Dagger Dirk have not been able to put forward a rebuttal to my pervious post...I fail to see the relevance to the 340 fuel system unless that somehow controls the cabin pressure on a 380.
The facts are there and EASA/JAA and the FAA could go probe if they wished.
As for the FAA, they are a joke, they have a dual mandate which compromises safety. Think how quickly the FAA acted when presented with evidence that the 747 forward cargo door could open in flight causing an explosive decompression, and evidence presented to the FAA that a forward door on the 747 opened on the ground by itself. Only after an explosive decompression and loss of life did Boeing and the FAA address the issue, couldn’t ground the 747 that would be against their commercial mandate.
How do you know the DGAC/EASA has not reviewed the claims ? Would be political suicide for the management of the organizations and very short tenure for something which is been public for some time.
The only reason that they're not is that, as yet, we're not talking about a certified airplane here, just one undergoing flight trials enroute to certification.
You mean anyone can just slap together a few materials, a couple of engines, put F-W
WOW on the side and fly it in and out of French airspace without any form of certification at all ?
WOW them French are dumb.
I guess many here find it amusing to see how quickly some people are to rubbish anything to do with airbus, but praise Boeing when they are using exactly the same TTTech technology for the 787.
I believe that the 380 is not without problems, however I am confident that now is the time to identify problems (i.e. test phase) and address them.
I have read with interest how open Airbus have been in Flight International listing issues they have found in the test phase, and how they are addressing them. Seen nothing like that before from any aircraft manufacturer.