The Airbus saga: Hubris and haste snarled the A380 (article)
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The Airbus saga: Hubris and haste snarled the A380 (article)
Article très intéréssant du Herald Tribune sur les raisons du désastre chez Airbus:
TOULOUSE, France: On Jan. 18, 2005, top executives of Airbus and its parent company, European Aeronautic Defense & Space, staged the aviation industry's equivalent of a Broadway musical for the A380s coming-out party here, complete with strobe lights, smoke machines and chorus girls. Before a rapt audience, Jacques Chirac, the French president, extolled the colossal, twin-deck jet as an unparalleled symbol of European manufacturing prowess.
"When it takes to the skies," Chirac said, "it will carry the colors of our Continent, and our technological ambitions, to even greater heights."
But as the dignitaries gathered at the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to toast the world's largest commercial airplane, a multibillion-dollar industrial crisis was already unfolding inside the plane's windowless, 125,000 square-meter, or 1.35 million square-foot, assembly hall.
Beginning in the summer of 2004 — about six months earlier — large sections of the plane's forward and rear fuselage had been arriving unfinished from Airbus's other main A380 production site in Hamburg. By the late autumn, a team of around 200 German mechanics was in Toulouse along with several hundred kilometers of electrical cables to be installed in the first planes. But after weeks of painstakingly threading thousands of veins of copper and aluminum wire around the walls and floor panels of the airframes, the teams had run into a maddening snag: the cables were too short...
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TOULOUSE, France: On Jan. 18, 2005, top executives of Airbus and its parent company, European Aeronautic Defense & Space, staged the aviation industry's equivalent of a Broadway musical for the A380s coming-out party here, complete with strobe lights, smoke machines and chorus girls. Before a rapt audience, Jacques Chirac, the French president, extolled the colossal, twin-deck jet as an unparalleled symbol of European manufacturing prowess.
"When it takes to the skies," Chirac said, "it will carry the colors of our Continent, and our technological ambitions, to even greater heights."
But as the dignitaries gathered at the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to toast the world's largest commercial airplane, a multibillion-dollar industrial crisis was already unfolding inside the plane's windowless, 125,000 square-meter, or 1.35 million square-foot, assembly hall.
Beginning in the summer of 2004 — about six months earlier — large sections of the plane's forward and rear fuselage had been arriving unfinished from Airbus's other main A380 production site in Hamburg. By the late autumn, a team of around 200 German mechanics was in Toulouse along with several hundred kilometers of electrical cables to be installed in the first planes. But after weeks of painstakingly threading thousands of veins of copper and aluminum wire around the walls and floor panels of the airframes, the teams had run into a maddening snag: the cables were too short...
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Salut, flyblue.
Pas grand chose de nouveau sinon l'anti french attitude. Ce qui n'est pas dit, c'est surtout que ,contrairement à l'article, Hambourg travaillait sur une version de Catia qui n'était plus utilisée par Toulouse, donc moins fine. C'est cette différence de définition qui est la cause première du fiasco total. Rappelle-toi, c'était l'année dernière, Toulouse avait d'abord pensé qu'un saboteur s'était amusé à couper les fils des pièces venant d'Allemagne ! Pas de nationalisme là-dedans ; juste des dirigeants qui étraient plus occupés à leurs petites guéguerres de pouvoir... Enfin, ils sont partis !
Si nationalisme il y a, Boeing utilise depuis le 777 les derniers Catia mis à jour.
Salut
PS :Si tu veux LE seul site qui présente les faits de AvsB en toute objectivité est Leeham.net. Plus complet et plus neutre, tu meurs !
Pas grand chose de nouveau sinon l'anti french attitude. Ce qui n'est pas dit, c'est surtout que ,contrairement à l'article, Hambourg travaillait sur une version de Catia qui n'était plus utilisée par Toulouse, donc moins fine. C'est cette différence de définition qui est la cause première du fiasco total. Rappelle-toi, c'était l'année dernière, Toulouse avait d'abord pensé qu'un saboteur s'était amusé à couper les fils des pièces venant d'Allemagne ! Pas de nationalisme là-dedans ; juste des dirigeants qui étraient plus occupés à leurs petites guéguerres de pouvoir... Enfin, ils sont partis !
Si nationalisme il y a, Boeing utilise depuis le 777 les derniers Catia mis à jour.
Salut
PS :Si tu veux LE seul site qui présente les faits de AvsB en toute objectivité est Leeham.net. Plus complet et plus neutre, tu meurs !
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