Good thing they outsourced the production of parts to all over the world. We all know how badly those union thugs screwed up the 747 and 737. So now your choice is Airbus running Windows ME as the OS for the fly by wire controls, or a plastic POS put together badly. Great/.

/kidding about the Airbus, but only barely....

Maxor


This isn't the SR-71. When your fuel-line couplings are put together improperly, it may a negative impact on reaching one's destination. It's kind of a big deal.

*ones

lordargent: I read the headline as "Barrio Logan" and thought, hmm, a plane crash there would increase the real-estate values.

What a plane crash into San Diego might look like

So, Boeing: sell, hold or buy?

FWIW
"While we have complete confidence that Boeing will ultimately rectify this problem, our experience has shown that random electrical issues with aircraft can be very difficult to troubleshoot. If the problem is in the software, there are millions of lines of code to examine. If the problem is in the wiring there are over 50 miles of wiring and 50,000 connectors that could be the cause. Hardware problems are the easiest to fix, but at this stage we find it hard to believe the problem is related to such highly tested items. The fact that Boeing (1) made major replacements of traditional copper wire with aluminum wire and (2) for the first time in its history outsourced the production and installation of its electrical connection systems only increases our concern that this issue may be more difficult to solve than most are assuming."- Carter Leake (snicker) analyst at BB&T

starrion

You DON'T hit your battery with a fire ax? What's it doing in my engine compartment then?

FlippityFlap: starrion

You DON'T hit your battery with a fire ax? What's it doing in my engine compartment then?

axing questions.

95629: More like SCREAMLINER

Amirite???

I like it.

Fark Rye For Many Whores: How does a plane fly like that?

really really really fast.

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.

If its not a Boeing, I'm not going.

Scarebus continues its engineering of murder and mayhem the world over. How many of our sons, daughters mothers and fathers and wives and husbands must be murdered by SCAREBUS before we stop this animal!

There have been recent and still as yet unexplained incidents at cruising altitude in the A330

See Qantas A330-300 (Flight QF72) emergency landing in Western Australia:

http://www.youtube.com/v/5d7aZtSOWZE

Concerning an A330 crash at an air show in France; a Discovery Channel documentary on this plane indicates that Air France had their best pilot on this plane and that computer was the cause:

http://www.youtube.com/v/fX4_Ho992TQ

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.

Boeing planes crash because operators violate the plane. Screw up maintenance. Basically Boeing crashes are from terrorists, people painting over pressure sensors, people flying them into things or massive mechanical failures brought on by horrific neglect or poor maintenance. They can be EXPLAINED.

Scarebus accidents have a scary high percentage of massive catastrophic failure that cannot be explained.

All I have to say is : B-17, B-24, B-29 and B-52, these planes were built in ways that could soak up gun fire for well over 60 years. They know how to build planes that have more than normal survivability. Air BUS. Its not AirPlane, its AirBus. Cheap garbage made as cheaply as possible to line the pockets of fat cats and unionized sickos and the safety of the plane is left to be at the EXACT minimums required, and they cheat often at those. Airbus is the culture of death. If you own stock in them, you are a killer. If you work for them, you are a killer.

darch: If yours is a serious question, the SR-71 flew so high and so fast that it literally expanded in flight. The body was designed to flex. Great for hypersonic, stratospheric flight, not so great parked on a Tarmac.

Concorde too expanded in flight. There were expansion joints on the floor of the cabin. Captains used to tell the passengers it was normal to see the floor plates move, however if you could see the ocean through one of the openings, to warn the flight atendant.