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Delayed QF A380 delivery - and great reporting!

Old 14th Oct 2009, 21:26
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Delayed QF A380 delivery - and great reporting!

Today's Sydney Morning Herald's Business Day section has a short piece on the delayed delivery of two more A380s to QF due to a problem with one of the aircraft:

The problem relates to the "flight trim", which involves the aircraft's ability to keep its centre of gravity while in the air.
Wow - I'm glad they're gonna fix that before QF takes delivery! Just imagine trying to fly an aeroplane that had lost its CofG. You'd wanna be space shuttle endorsed and current, I s'pose
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Old 14th Oct 2009, 23:33
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Four I think.
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Old 15th Oct 2009, 00:07
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I believe there is a real problem with this. They are running out of ideas to fix it and are tossing up if they will except delivery or not.
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Red face

Nothing a Smart Frenchman cannot fix !!!!!! Oh well , back to the Citroen ....Sacre Blu......
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LOL!

I owned a Peugeot once and within a year of manufacture the electronics were going haywire (immobiliser and ABS) and shortly after that bits kept falling off it!!
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NAMPS, I have a 207GT - and its full of personality, beeping and clacking away like R2D2 - who knows what its trying to say - I figure its like a canary - probably means it's happy??
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Thats why it's called the Sarah Jessica Parker.

High Maintenance and f@cking ugly.
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max1, my belly hurts, thankyou.
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Old 15th Oct 2009, 12:13
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How come this trim problem would only be cropping up now rather than with the early builds?

If Qantas doesn't accept delivery of these where does that leave the A380 aquisition?
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How come this trim problem would only be cropping up now rather than with the early builds?
I believe that the fault is only on the next aircraft for QF (MSN27, 5th delivery for QF). Something obviously went wrong during the construction process and wasn't picked up during the normal systems checks. It was apparently picked up during pre-delivery test flying.

Aircraft from MSN26 on are classified as "Wave 2", in that the production process is more standardised in comparison to the earlier aircraft which had to be partially re-manufactured due to earlier production problems.
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Wink

Just what we need , a "Second Wave" of Sarah Jessica Parkers' , I cant wait......
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Originally Posted by Going Boeing
It was apparently picked up during pre-delivery test flying.
If it was pre-delivery, rather than initial flight test, does that mean it was the QF guys who found it, so we can all blame the French? (and the Germans)

Anyone remember the early 747 nacelle "yolking" problems, just in case we were contemplating a Boeing v. Airbus stoush?
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Originally Posted by NAMPS
I owned a Peugeot once and within a year of manufacture the electronics were going haywire (immobiliser and ABS) and shortly after that bits kept falling off it!!
I've owned a number of Peugeots and they have all operated perfectly without fail...
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Wave 2

As G.B alludes this aircraft is wave 2 production and part of the changes revolve around wiring and computer networking changes.

Apparently there are some software issues regarding the networking changes that are proving troublesome, or so I'm reliably told.
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