Airbus A350 Rolls Out of Paint Shop

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 19 2013,4:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Seriously! I ordered it for you, Ian.
Then I noticed the "Minimum Order" is 30 Euro!
How many takers for A380 caps do we have here then??

Crikey and to think i walk so proudly with me Australian Airshow , Wanaka Airshow , Me Boeing 717 .. SeanG nudged wondered were my 737 Cap was .. My 1941 Pearl Harbour memorial currently holds the headpiece for the TrackIR ... I'd be to scared to put a ARBUST cap in front of me computers ... I'd just hate to crash em

QUOTE (deeknow @ Jun 19 2013,4:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Too funny !!! ... I'd order him a Classic 737-300 Cap too

Dean Dean Dean .... CLASSIC .. I don't no about ya

[HamiltonWest]

New Airbus A350 jet's interiors unveiled
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/n...0415-36old.html

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updat...0-1226881175708

[Ian Warren]

The old race is on again, bit like Mustang versus Messerschmitt

[HamiltonWest]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jujug/15387192781/

[hasegawa]

http://youtu.be/rvkEpstd9os

After this I see the A350 as positive. Air Berlin has cancelled his Dreamliners and is only the first, that react.

The problem with the battery is NOT solved. There was only a later Boeing-Man at the command of the FAA. The Production at the new plant for the Dreanmliner seemed to be not adequate in technical standarts and workmanship. Nobody want to talk about, but meanwhile some Airlines didn´t want buy aircraft build in Charleston.

[Ian Warren]

We had this posted little whiles back, its taking short cuts the cause the problems and outsourcing/distributing work.

[hasegawa]

Yes Ian, this is one of the points. Another is, that Boeing has not enough invested in the People at the Charleston plant.
Another problem is that they have (i have a problem with the English vokables) less time for the aircraft to manufacture. The security inspectors are under pressure and can not do the work as required. They have only signed that everything is allright, but it was not allright. Incomplete and damaged parts are build in the later controlled aircraft. They have sacrificed accuracy for deadlines. And this is all in all unacceptable. So for me Boeing is not the old Boeing Company that has build a lot of good, safe and solid aircraft. At the moment it semed, that we are very lucky, but let us see, how safe these plastic aircraft are in the daily reality and under the normal pressure. Nobody can test this under all circumstances and often enough the mankind has learnt the lessions only with casualtys... The point, that the Ex. Boss of the FAA, who signed the aircraft airworthy after the battery-failurs is now a Vice-director of Boeingis not inspiring confidence.

I dislike the Dreamliner and can only hope, that the A 350 with the same concept is safer and better.

[Ian Warren]

Batteries Hmm .. they even get problems even for them laptops ... a seldom use PC here, normally use to show works, fortunate I have a personal computer scientist 'Greg' who regularly stop here to chew the fat, talk aeroplanes and shoot them , least that's what we did - Greg and myself this morning clambering over a Bristol Freighter, it gets tight in that WWII style cockpit .... fortunate no battery's to set it alight ... hate to try to get out off that one too quickly .... mind you I always chuckle at some off the switch's

[HamiltonWest]

QUOTE (HamiltonWest @ Sep 30 2014,1:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jujug/15387192781/

http://youtu.be/tamFopXaL9w

[Ian Warren]

Well I guess we will see this as a news item either tonight or the next few days ... one thing I do like and what cameras and binoculars are very good at is drawing the condensation either across the wings or in engine nacelles ... I checked this once when watching a 747 arrive in Christchurch years ago when they had a roof top viewing platform with high powered binoculars as it turn on its finals , it created a halo ... looked up with eyeball and you could not see it .