Justcol

My brother helped design the wings on the A380, he assures me everythings ok. . . . Hmmm!!!
Think he's after a bigger share of mums inheritance

scrubbedexpat094

Was he one of those kids that used to take things apart, put them back together again & then found a part he'd forgotten to put back . That was one of my brother's 'talents'. He could never be bothered to open the thing back up again and insert missing part . He used to put the now useless item in the back of the garage, out of the way.

Years later, Dad cleared the garage out & couldn't understand why there were so many broken radios, cassette players etc. in there. By that time, darling brother had left home & joined the merchant navy. Thank god he never went into designing owt like my Dad

Not sure I'd want to get on an A380 until they've sorted these cracks out.

Matelot

Do you think EASA or the CAA would risk any possible "incidents" to the A380? Just think of the litigation! If there was a real immediate problem they would be grounded!

BEVS

Hello.

Matelot

Nice to meet you BEVS! Ducks okay?

BEVS

They're quackers & they don't fly. Something to do with lift & load I think..

Matelot

Load being greater than lift?

Justcol

then they should be for slim people only. . . yay more room for me !!

ellenarosemary

My husband also makes parts for the A380 (not the wings though), and there's more problems looming too, and not just with the wings - think the whole thing was rushed through without sufficient testing on the 'new' carbon fibre design.

Matelot

Boeing are having their problems too, the "plastic pig" aka the 787 has been bedeviled by delays, BA are introducing both models to their fleet soon!

Matelot

Non hysterical explanation of the wing cracks! http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...rocess-367116/

Margaret Parkinson

We flew on the Qantas A380 this time last year, glad we did not know all this at the time or we never have boarded on our second leg of our journey from Singapore to Heathrow on the 6th March.

June

Matelot

With all due respect MP, your knowledge of Aviation is probably matched with my knowledge of sausages!

Margaret Parkinson

You are quite correct I should have said we MAY never have boarded but then again the odds would have been with us. We are going on a cruise in April and the Costa disaster has not put us off. We are in the lap of the gods.

June

OleJanx

People still flew Comets, when they first came out, though, didn't they?