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| Thread ID: 128801 | 2013-01-16 03:32:00 | Another Dreamliner emergency | WalOne (4202) | PC World Chat |
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| 1323035 | 2013-01-17 23:05:00 | And the Concorde, only 1 crash | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1323036 | 2013-01-18 02:17:00 | I would love to be a fly on the wall, in the Boing board room, imagine what this lot is costing. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1323037 | 2013-01-18 03:04:00 | What do you think Airbus is made of? Carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, glass-fibre reinforced plastic and quartz-fibre reinforced plastic are used extensively in wings, fuselage sections (such as the undercarriage and rear end of fuselage), tail surfaces, and doors. And... Major structural sections of the A380 are built in France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. D No dreamliner has crashed yet, so I'd rather be in a Boeing than an Airbus. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1323038 | 2013-01-18 20:33:00 | Bring back the DC3 :p | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1323039 | 2013-01-18 20:55:00 | It hasn't gone. There's more DC3s than Dreamliners flying today. :p | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1323040 | 2013-01-18 21:12:00 | Boeing 787 Emergency (www.bbc.co.uk) A Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has made an emergency landing in in western Japan. All the passengers and crew were evacuated safely. The incident comes on top of a slew of recent problems with Boeing's new airliner. According to ANA, there was an error message regarding battery malfunction. More on this (www.bbc.co.uk) An error message - wow They have been flying now for a year! Boeing will get round this, its just the battery control systems. I think there was only two planes that got withdrawn from passenger service due to design fault and they were the DC10 - those problems with the cargo area and the De Havilland Comet 1 with metal fatigue. Does anyone know how big those batteries are? its hard to tell from the pictures. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1323041 | 2013-01-18 21:34:00 | Bring back the DC3 :p Very true, a great plane indeed, but we do tend to expect more than that can provide, these days. I remember the walk up the hill once inside one. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1323042 | 2013-01-18 21:37:00 | The Ju87 had teething problems with the automatic pull out device but went on to become a great commie tank killer. People have short memories hardly hear about the A380 RR engine probs any more. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1323043 | 2013-01-18 21:45:00 | The Ju87 had teething problems with the automatic pull out device but went on to become a great commie tank killer. People have short memories hardly hear about the A380 RR engine probs any more. The fact is, the Boeing is taking a long time to get right, which is unusual for that crowd. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1323044 | 2013-01-18 22:15:00 | Very true, a great plane indeed, but we do tend to expect more than that can provide, these days. I remember the walk up the hill once inside one. Two memorable flights in DC3's - one with Mt Cook Airlines from ChCh - Mt Cook, with the highlight being a zigzag down the Tasman Glacier and all of us being invited up to the cockpit for a look (one at a time of course). I will never forget the look on the face of a young lad coming out of the cockpit - I bet he became a pilot. The second flight was memorable just because you could do it in those days - we took a scheduled SPANZ DC3 flight from Alexandra to Gore in 1963 or 1964! Those were the days, even though the DC3 wasn't the last word in luxury. I used to be fascinated by the rivets in the wings, convinced the whole thing was going to unzip. |
John H (8) | ||
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