No, Airbus can learn a lot from those crafty Boeing engineers- eg Let's save fuel by not allowing the engines to power up on short final, or lets hasten pax disembarkment by burning down the aircraft at the gate.
Well, this quote reminds me of Habsheim and the hangar in CDG ....
But on another note this is a SR111 flashback. They had similar toothing problems with the IFEN electrics, but ... just played them down and displayed a very similar lack of information. We all know the result. It is not only AB. The reverting from cables and hydraulic lines to all electrics is visible on the 787 as well. I personally prefer severed cables, leaking hydraulic lines to short circuiting electrical equippment, but the trend is set and we have to live with it.
The really dangerous situation today is the constant cover-up of these problems, the same as the head in the sand defensive attitude of freaks of these new aircraft.
Tell it like it is, then they will be forced to improve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I may quote Obama: You can put lipstick on a pig, it will still be a pig.
