Merged: Qantas and Rolls Royce Secret
Too bloody right Kanga. Its Spanish on the floor at Boeing....and a few sneaky looks anytime legal immigration or green card is mentioned.
Now the boeing vs airbus debate has gotten to the factory floor. A new low.
The Don
Now the boeing vs airbus debate has gotten to the factory floor. A new low.
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QF A380 on the Pacific
From the QF website:-
Does anybody know what this means?
When is it likely that QF will start them back on the Pacific?
With CASA's approval, two A380s have returned to service, operating between Australia and the UK, with Qantas voluntarily applying a range of conditions that include not operating the aircraft across the Pacific until further operational experience has been gathered.
Does anybody know what this means?
When is it likely that QF will start them back on the Pacific?
The engine is certified at 72000lbs for QF. Only QF have these 72k engines. SIA and Luft have 70k engines.
Rolls Royce have asked QF not to run them at 72k but wont say why, until they issue a certified document stating that QF can do as they please.
The engine has been runup to 84k by RR to 72k out of LAX should not be too much of a problem.
Rolls Royce have asked QF not to run them at 72k but wont say why, until they issue a certified document stating that QF can do as they please.
The engine has been runup to 84k by RR to 72k out of LAX should not be too much of a problem.
Kangaroo. you obviously have a poor regard for the 380 and all things airbus. But the 787 is more or less built by a consortium of risk sharing partners and look at the ball of crap that has turned into.
Boeing have screwed themselves well and truly with the way they have managed the manufacture of the 787, and then to compound the issues they straight out lie to all and sundry that the program is still on track blah blah blah.
I used to be a Boeing man but I can say that airbus make a product that is so much more user friendly in many ways.
I hold the 744 and 777 in high regard but their they wont be here forever and if Boeing cant sort out the 787 saga they wont be here either. They have rehashed the 744 again but I believe it is to little too late and too much old technology. Modern aircraft shouldn't be using long cable runs to control flight controls in this day.
Boeing have screwed themselves well and truly with the way they have managed the manufacture of the 787, and then to compound the issues they straight out lie to all and sundry that the program is still on track blah blah blah.
I used to be a Boeing man but I can say that airbus make a product that is so much more user friendly in many ways.
I hold the 744 and 777 in high regard but their they wont be here forever and if Boeing cant sort out the 787 saga they wont be here either. They have rehashed the 744 again but I believe it is to little too late and too much old technology. Modern aircraft shouldn't be using long cable runs to control flight controls in this day.
Bootstrap1:
How many thousands of people has fly by wire killed? How many more before all the bugs are ironed out? In any case what you call "modern technology" ain't that modern anyway, for example the RR Trent uses diffusion bonded Titanium fan blades a technology that was started to be developed Forty years ago.
The aircraft manufacturing industry is very conservative, and for good reason.
Every time I climb into the little bug smasher, I think of all the people who paid with their lives to determine the design requirements of every single component in it, right down to the whistle hole in the engine breather.
You can stick your "modern technology".
Modern aircraft shouldn't be using long cable runs to control flight controls in this day.
The aircraft manufacturing industry is very conservative, and for good reason.
Every time I climb into the little bug smasher, I think of all the people who paid with their lives to determine the design requirements of every single component in it, right down to the whistle hole in the engine breather.
You can stick your "modern technology".
