A380 AOG in JFK
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From: Holding at DESDI
That picture is the core of the GE90. The engine was designed to be shipped 'split'. Aan ex-engineer (from EK) who is now cockpit crew, I can confirm that I have personally loaded a fan case on a 777F.
Glofish: The An-124 was probably (I'm guessing here) for the RR T800 to carry the #1 engine for A6-EMM, waaaaay before EK had 777F's.
The last 777 engine change done in Oz was around a year ago, and EK used its own 777F to transport the engine.
Glofish: The An-124 was probably (I'm guessing here) for the RR T800 to carry the #1 engine for A6-EMM, waaaaay before EK had 777F's.
The last 777 engine change done in Oz was around a year ago, and EK used its own 777F to transport the engine.
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From: overthere
Sorry bout that. I thought the BNE engine was sent as a quick change unit, that's with fan attached, on the AN124. Looks like I was wrong again. Huge motor in any case. Still impressed on how much two of them can lift.
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From: Surrounded by aluminum, and the great outdoors
was parked right next to it, it was indeed a complete QC engine, the AN 124 had shucked a majority of it's tires on arrival and was itself temp grounded...And yes the EK triple in BNE was due to be the reciepient as communicated by the DNATA supervisor handling my 757PF at the time
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From: Clipperton island
Originally Posted by Dropp the pilot
They are quite good at building comically inept airplanes though
Dropp, do you have an idea of how many MD11 finished upside down on landing (or at least with a broken gear ?) ? how the 737 rudders had an habit of overcompensating, thus crashing three aircraft in a succession (but nobody ever considered grounding them, how strange (and poor passengers)
Do you have any idea of the aerodynamic glitches which brought down a prototype of the new Gulfstream 650 last yeatr, sadly killing all on board ? and with that US manufacturer answering the NTSB that "the drive containing telemetry traces fo the accident had been accidentally (!) discarded in the trash by an employee !" so yes, comically inept as you said.
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From: Post-Pit and Lovin' It.
Not to interrupt the bitch-slapping, but did that thing ever get out of JFK before the storm hit? Last I was told it was having a second replacement engine shipped in, for some reason. 
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From: Post-Pit and Lovin' It.
WK, ah ok thanks. But I have since heard that after EDD returned to DXB, they did indeed have to replace a different engine for the same reason the first one failed. (Something to do with the HP section going supernova and melting important bits. Hey I'm not an engineer.)
And to be fair, would seem to be an issue with the engines, not Airbus's fault per se...
And to be fair, would seem to be an issue with the engines, not Airbus's fault per se...
