When it rains...
09-01-2007 | 02:42 PM
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When it rains...
...it pours 
Need to re-calibrate that "MK-1" eyeball
BANGKOK, Thailand — An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, scraped the tip of a wing on a building at Bangkok's international airport Saturday as it was preparing for a demonstration flight, officials of the aircraft company and Thai Airways said.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep...Airbus,00.html
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Need to re-calibrate that "MK-1" eyeballBANGKOK, Thailand — An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, scraped the tip of a wing on a building at Bangkok's international airport Saturday as it was preparing for a demonstration flight, officials of the aircraft company and Thai Airways said.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep...Airbus,00.html
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09-01-2007 | 02:59 PM
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What's the big deal? They've been able to defer those endplate winglets for years with a fuel penalty. In fact if you look at pictures of the early production A320-100's that went to Air France and BCAL(since BA), they didn't even have winglets.
09-01-2007 | 06:02 PM
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09-02-2007 | 04:51 AM
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"It's no big deal"...Could you imagine the queen bee of our fleet, our flagship being an A380 and one of our crews 'clipping' a wing on something...I don't think we would get the "It's no big deal" response! Hang them!!!
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09-02-2007 | 05:00 AM
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09-02-2007 | 09:14 PM
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I thought we were discussing the ramifications to the plan not the crew-of course it's a big deal to the crew.
09-02-2007 | 09:31 PM
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[quote=Toccata;224661]It was all planned as part of the "dispatch reliability" demonstration. Next agenda item is to get a truck stuck in the mud due to a deferred camera system.
I think a movie (Airport - part deux) is to be part of that recovery!
When it can be avoided........"Never fly the "A" model of anything". At least until it becomes the "A+"
I think a movie (Airport - part deux) is to be part of that recovery!
When it can be avoided........"Never fly the "A" model of anything". At least until it becomes the "A+"
