QF A380 off jacks?
Yes, could be out for two weeks.
Big picture people, you are losing focus.
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The Net promoter scores from the ever reducing passenger numbers carried on qf metal are fabulous and the engagement levels of customer facing staff have never been better.
Just ask us, we'll tell you.
The jungle drums say that the aircraft will be out for at least a month, and that's from an optimist.
The problem apparently is fallout from the migrated bush in the horizontal stab repair job which led to a cracked brace being discovered in the area and temp repaired until this hangar visit.
This job required the a/c to be jacked and leveled and the stab to be jacked with enough load to take its weight. When the stab jacking process had barely started there was a nasty bang and bits started raining down. The four jack loadings required had been calculated independently by a couple of well qualified people who had done the same job recently. A mystery right now is how the jack points failed so spectacularly with such low loadings, nothing like the final load required.
The problem apparently is fallout from the migrated bush in the horizontal stab repair job which led to a cracked brace being discovered in the area and temp repaired until this hangar visit.
This job required the a/c to be jacked and leveled and the stab to be jacked with enough load to take its weight. When the stab jacking process had barely started there was a nasty bang and bits started raining down. The four jack loadings required had been calculated independently by a couple of well qualified people who had done the same job recently. A mystery right now is how the jack points failed so spectacularly with such low loadings, nothing like the final load required.
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I heard a similar story Mustafagander, looks like you might be on the money. Also heard a suggestion for an ops manager per Dugong to try and keep the Maint in check.
Here's an image of the Gallipoli event from Australian Aviation twitter feed.
There seems to be some damage visible in the horizontal stabilizer.
https://twitter.com/AusAviation/stat...27670454292480
There seems to be some damage visible in the horizontal stabilizer.
https://twitter.com/AusAviation/stat...27670454292480
How deliciously ironic that an aeroplane named in honour of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith should, one hundred years after the event being celebrated, finally get to display the name ANZAC.
In 1934, Smithy had sought to honour his fellow ANZACs by bestowing this very name on the Lockheed Altair with which he planned to represent Australia in the 1934 Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne. The outcome was described by P.G. Taylor in his 1935 book "Pacific Flight":
In 1934, Smithy had sought to honour his fellow ANZACs by bestowing this very name on the Lockheed Altair with which he planned to represent Australia in the 1934 Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne. The outcome was described by P.G. Taylor in his 1935 book "Pacific Flight":
After some days of negotiation, the machine was registered and we were permitted to fly her within three miles of Mascot aerodrome. The name "ANZAC", together with the entire lacquered surface below it, was removed in the presence of a Customs officer whose duty it was to see that the name was obliterated before the machine was cleared, and she was christened Lady Southern Cross, a good name.