I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: De panique tout le monde = From panic, all over the world?

I don't get the joke.

French verb conjugations are l'biatche

over/under on number of liter posts before scarebus?

8.

This is precisely why the French should stick to making perfume, not airplanes.

NewportBarGuy: "We would just like to point out that most of our planes haven't crashed... yet."

The front fell off?

I don't know whether it safe, but holy hell that thing is ugly...

As soon as Boeing/Airbus starts to gain market share over the other, a new defect in their latest plane is discovered. It's like a seesaw of suck.

Remember if a plane fails to get you to your destination, you will get to the crash site well before the rescue crews. This way you will have plenty of time to retrieve your luggage.

mr_a: "...minor cracks were found on some noncritical wing rib-skin attachments"

Sounds pretty benign to me-how critical could anything affecting the wing be?


No cause for alarm here, I assure you.

Now is IS true that cracks were found on some wing rib-skin attachments... MINOR cracks, NONCRITICAL parts...

...by the way, does anyone onboard this craft have aircraft welding experience?

Okay, I've seen discovery specials on the plane that had half the roof tear in flight off due to something like this. I'm never, ever flying in Europe. ever.

Mildot: [franknotes.files.wordpress.com image 599x690]

Valid repair on a non-critical air-frame surface, or for the leather seats in your caddy.

Picture from the news conference with the Airbus PR department:

/hot like a post crash fire

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: De panique tout le monde = From panic, all over the world?

I don't get the joke.

Sûrement, vous ne pouvez pas être sérieux.

Mais oui. Et n'appelle-moi pas sûrement.

I wonder how these cracks would affect an A380 traveling at 36K ft in or around a thunderhead on an intercontinental flight...

//purely snark.
//pitot tubes and all that...

People called Romanes, they go, the house?

Um yeah you should probably just fix that. Even if it's not flight critical, it's worth fixing.

octopied: Okay, I've seen discovery specials on the plane that had half the roof tear in flight off due to something like this. I'm never, ever flying in Europe. ever.

Do you realize the thing you speak of was a Boeing 737 on a Hawaiian puddle jumping flight?

Unless, perhaps you are referring to the DH Comet way back in the 1950's?

Oh man, in before the Airbus Scarebus guy!

Airbus / Scarebus continues its ritual un-prosecuted pre-meditated killing of passengers world wide. From forcing tsunami destroyed countries to buy Scarebus to get aid, to failing the A380 150% wing-loading test, Scarebus builds on its reputation for falling out of the sky. FL35, cruise and it "breaks up". Nice. Good planes.

drucee: Oh man, in before the Airbus Scarebus guy!

65 seconds. Not a bad job sir.

The Airbus A380 in action.

/Your actual experience may vary.

meh ... have a hard time getting worked up over an article which provides no meaningful information.

Mildot: [franknotes.files.wordpress.com image 599x690]

Duct tape is 4x stronger than steel by weight. Your pic is invalid.

De panique tout le monde isn't that a Pixies album?

Local Man:

500 mph tape? So?

Gyrfalcon: After all, the wings on C-130's were notorious for flapping visibly while in flight, and those planes seldom killed more than five or six crewmembers when they crashed.

This is why I always preferred jumping out of them to letting them continue flying with me inside.

Elle a toute le monde sur son balcon

(For the record, I'm not the original "Scarebus guy," but I couldn't resist.)

I guess they should have stuck to using the wings of a Boeing.

DrExplosion: This is why I always preferred jumping out of them to letting them continue flying with me inside.

I watched a midair between a C-130 and an F-18 (both Spanish AF). The -130 was over the base, and the F-18 was taking off. He was evidently too busy looking at his gauges and not looking out the window.

The climbing F-18 sliced off about 15 feet of -130 left wing. F-18 wobbled off to the left, eject, crash...the C-130 made a wiiide circle and landed, sans wing.

I'll ride in them anytime.

/uncomfortable bastids, though