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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 12/7/2006 4:13:38 AM

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Sounds like some humble pie eating is going on around here now........heh heh

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 12/7/2006 7:40:23 PM

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Sounds like some humble pie eating is going on around here now........heh heh

Be more specific plz

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 12/9/2006 1:23:45 AM

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Going back to the A380, it looks like its getting its Airworthiness certificate on the 12th of this month. It will be a nice break for the guys at airbus I am sure. The management have cocked up royally for sure, but there is no doubt that the guys workin on the shop floor did a fantastic job with this aircraft, so congratulations to them.

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 3/19/2007 7:22:31 PM

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One good piece of news is not bad sometimes

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/19/airbus.transatlantic.ap/index.html

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 3/24/2007 7:44:35 PM

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Please refrain from teasing or joking about that which we take pride in, whether it is true or not

Hey Strykaas, You better keep away from those classic French "Yeah right, they landed on the moon!" jokes so much enjoyed here in Europe!
Or those Bush administartion "We know the names of the Hijackers because we found their Passorts in the rubble, Knock knock jokes some years back.
So popular in Brussels. How can you end so many jokes with that line... it's just amazing!
Without doubt the funniest thing to come out the Benilux countries.

Loved it.

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 3/27/2007 2:47:06 AM

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OK
I just was cruisin around and looked at the posts here. My answer as a A+P IA is , when it comes to maintenance... BOEING kicks AIRBUS butt! Unofficailly most mechaincs still know that airbus airplanes are the "disposable" kind (sorta like a YUGO car was back in the 80's) and I can back that up with one easy question.... HOW MANY airbus birds out there are over 30 years old and STILL allowed to fly passengers?? It's just a simple question.

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 3/27/2007 2:19:16 PM

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OK
I just was cruisin around and looked at the posts here. My answer as a A+P IA is , when it comes to maintenance... BOEING kicks AIRBUS butt! Unofficailly most mechaincs still know that airbus airplanes are the "disposable" kind (sorta like a YUGO car was back in the 80's) and I can back that up with one easy question.... HOW MANY airbus birds out there are over 30 years old and STILL allowed to fly passengers?? It's just a simple question.

Aw geez, let's not start another war.

It would be easy for someone to simply say Airbus or the European regulators have higher standards- no way to answer that question within an absolute context. Let's just not say anyone kicks anyone else's butts period!

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 3/27/2007 9:44:23 PM

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Well said Mulligan. Plus the A300 entered service in mid 1970's, so most airbus aircraft families aren't even 30 years old yet.
Whats more important is the incredible safety record that both Boeing and Aribus have as of late. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there has bveen a fatality on an A340 or 777 as of yet.

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 6/21/2007 3:35:27 PM

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had the chance to see the A380 from close up this time landing in Taipei. it's big. it made the two 747's next to it look small. the turbofans must be at least twice the size (intake area) than the 747 and the tail stick out a good few meters. but it just looks like a big fat airbus.

i didn't have the chance to look inside but my friend did get a pass to look around the cabin and said the posh lounges, mini gyms and sleepers are absent. only a lone sofa adorns the first class cabin. the rest of the plane is seats... rows and rows of seats. she wasn't impressed.

so what does this all mean? no clue. but i'm sure the airbus isn't going away. but i'm putting my bet on the dreamliner. it's the wave of the future. the A380 will survive but only if they consider cargo and combi's, both of which i heard were axed due to development costs. a grave mistake in my opinion. grave.

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 6/23/2007 11:22:32 PM

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With all the A380 delays (first delivery has been slipped for the third time to October 2007 - anyone taking bets on whether that date is gonna hold?), reckon the door is opened for Boeing's 747-8, especially for current 747 operators (parts, training, support are already in place) -

The way things are going at Airbus, the Boeing 787 may be available before they can deliver

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"The 747-8 Intercontinental is the only jetliner in the 400- to 500-seat market, stretched 5.6 m (18.3 ft) from the 747-400 to provide 467 seats in a three-class configuration and a 14,815-km (8,000-nmi) range. Using 787-technology engines, the airplane will be quieter, produce lower emissions, and achieve better fuel economy than any competing jetliner. Compared to the 747-400, the 747-8 Intercontinental will provide nearly equivalent trip costs and 10 percent lower seat-mile costs, plus 28 percent greater cargo volume. Operating economics will offer a significant improvement over the A380. The 747-8 is more than 11 percent lighter per seat than the A380 and will consume 10 percent less fuel per passenger than the 555-seat airplane. That translates into a trip-cost reduction of 19 percent and a seat-mile cost reduction of more than 3 percent, compared to the A380. Both the 747-8 Intercontinental and 747-8 Freighter can use the existing infrastructure and ground equipment at most airports worldwide."

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 7/19/2007 3:57:58 AM

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I wonder if the A-380 will replace the Concorde? One thing I won,t have to wonder about is when, I will be asked to do a 360 while a 380 shoots the ILS here at Lihue International. Ha Ha
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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 7/19/2007 10:38:17 PM

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I wonder if the A-380 will replace the Concorde?

In terms of what ? Superior european aeronautical engineering ? Here we go again

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 7/20/2007 12:09:05 AM

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In my book anyone that builds an aircraft that can only land on just a handfull of airports around the world ain't too brilliant.
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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 7/20/2007 2:02:48 AM

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How about the inferior meeting of delivery schedules?

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 7/20/2007 3:05:11 AM

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In my book anyone that builds an aircraft that can only land on just a handfull of airports around the world ain't too brilliant.

Your book therefore states that the Concorde ain't too brilliant. Hum.

Delivery schedules lag illustrates the technical challenges behind such a big a/c.

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 3/1/2008 9:33:04 AM

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TA-DA

. Who has won the super-mega-multi-billion-dollar contract

???
I'm afraid to think all your fighters will be refueled by a s-h-i-t-t-y airbus cargo plane.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/29/air.force.tankers/index.html

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RE: INCREDIBLE PLANE ! LOOK ! - 3/1/2008 8:01:47 PM