Is it possible to post this without being cited for anti -Airbus syndrome?
25th March 2006:NTSB cites inspections -on A300 fins- 1 being an urgent.
Got to:
http://www.ntsb.gov/letters/2006/AO6_27_28.pdf
So, away from the hype and the mass media rubbish, do we now have formal recognition of an ageing composites issue?
What of the manufacturing issues?
One thing may now be obvious, bunging the same fin design on a range of fuselages, power plants etc, with consequent effects on thrust lines, centres of pressure, polar inertia and lever arm fulcrum, never mind airflow patterns and G breaks, may be pushing the plastic too far...