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Er, a search on the Airliner website still have pictures of it having a rudder. The only plane I know that don't have a rudder is the B2 and but I don't exactly know how that thing manages to yaw.
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Well I've got a big piccie on my desktop taken from about the 5 o'clock position showing an RTO test (with the two engine reverses open) and the beast looks as if it's got a rudder to me.
There are definate lines in the vertical tail at the location a rudder would hinge...
The picture is http://www.airliners.net/open.file/817619/L/
There are definate lines in the vertical tail at the location a rudder would hinge...
The picture is http://www.airliners.net/open.file/817619/L/
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Thanks guys...
It did sound a bit fantastical. Perhaps I should have looked at airliners.net before taking the word of a parisian taxi driver!
As for my name ... it shall remain now i'm convinced it can land in a crosswind!
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It did sound a bit fantastical. Perhaps I should have looked at airliners.net before taking the word of a parisian taxi driver!
As for my name ... it shall remain now i'm convinced it can land in a crosswind!
:-)
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Don't get all worked up boys it's just another piece of Airbus crap at the end of the day, over weight already by 20 tonnes and under performing.
if not another boeing as*h*l*
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The rudder is built in Spain in Puerto Real and transported to Stade in Germany to be joined to the rest of the vertical tailplane. Built from CFRP, it comprises an upper and a lower rudder. The upper rudder is 12 metres long, more than half a metre wide and weighs 350 kg/ 771 lb. The lower rudder is around seven metres long, almost one metre wide and weighs more than 250 kg/551 lbs.
dreamingA380,
Maybe a bus driver would be a better source
Just kidding, it is B/S, the rudder is made in spain, and mated to the rest of the vertical stab in Germany.
Maybe a bus driver would be a better source
Just kidding, it is B/S, the rudder is made in spain, and mated to the rest of the vertical stab in Germany.
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There was never -ever in aviation history more false rumours floating arround then currently ,associated with the first flights of A380.
Any project of this size obviously calls for problems and un-predicable last minute hick-ups.But I would love to see a fraction of these negative gossip associated with the 7E7 dreamliner project.
Not that I am against Boeing or particularly pro -Airbus. But as most people crowding aviation forums ,we are supposed to be aviation freaks and supportive of any major development in civil aviation.Some threads are so full of hate or non-aviation related B.S. that I wonder why people take time to participate in forums.
The A380 has probabely it's fair share of issues -shall it be weight,cost-overrun or infrastructure related issues with airports refusing to accomodate the plane - but it still is a massive job-creator not only for europeans but also for americans. 30-40% of any A380 value is manufactured in the USA !
I do look forward to see the A 380 and the Dreamliner take off successfully ....
Any project of this size obviously calls for problems and un-predicable last minute hick-ups.But I would love to see a fraction of these negative gossip associated with the 7E7 dreamliner project.
Not that I am against Boeing or particularly pro -Airbus. But as most people crowding aviation forums ,we are supposed to be aviation freaks and supportive of any major development in civil aviation.Some threads are so full of hate or non-aviation related B.S. that I wonder why people take time to participate in forums.
The A380 has probabely it's fair share of issues -shall it be weight,cost-overrun or infrastructure related issues with airports refusing to accomodate the plane - but it still is a massive job-creator not only for europeans but also for americans. 30-40% of any A380 value is manufactured in the USA !
I do look forward to see the A 380 and the Dreamliner take off successfully ....
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Making money,will it fly?
Good old Boeing!
A bit like the presedential ellections lets rubbish the competion!
I seem to remeber they said all these things about the Jumbo when it was first conceived!
how long has it been flying?
Mind you I beleive the guys have had a tough time landing the beast on the simulator!
A bit like the presedential ellections lets rubbish the competion!
I seem to remeber they said all these things about the Jumbo when it was first conceived!
how long has it been flying?
Mind you I beleive the guys have had a tough time landing the beast on the simulator!
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Heard from a taxi-driver of Tolouse, A380 will not have a rudder
Or because he overheard a conversation in his taxi? (in French ofcourse)
Smells a litle of a wind-up...............
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The only plane I know that don't have a rudder is the B2 and but I don't exactly know how that thing manages to yaw
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On the B2 the control surfaces at the wing tips are not just the ailerons, they are the split rudders whic work to increase the drag of that wing to yaw the plane...hence the deflection both above and below the wing..
They may also work as ailerons I'm not certain they do tho...
They may also work as ailerons I'm not certain they do tho...
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Mind you I beleive the guys have had a tough time landing the beast on the simulator!