Getting the truth out of Boeing is a real struggle. This issue that the company is trying to represent as something minor that can be patched internally was the wing starting to delaminate at something less than 120% of the maximum design load.
The side location dutifully noted by the US media in a Boeing conference [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Dreamliner-The wing began to break
June 24, 2009 – 10:52 am
Bad times at Boeing, Dreamliner delayed again pending further design fixes
June 24, 2009 – 1:35 am
There is no new schedule for flight testing of the Boeing Dreamliner following the postponement of the first flight due by 30 June because of the discovery in April of design deficiencies in the area where the wing joins either side of the fuselage of the high composite ‘plastic’ airliner.
Boeing issued this statement a short [...]
Laser a plane, go to jail
June 22, 2009 – 11:02 am
An item in the Cairns Post this morning adds to the rising number of fools with lasers being caught doing something that might have seemed like a coward’s cheap thrill in pointing a laser at an aircraft.
A TEENAGE boy has become the first person charged under Queensland’s
new laser laws after he allegedly targeted the [...]
Minor injuries reported on Qantas flight to Perth from Hong Kong this morning due to turbulence
June 22, 2009 – 10:02 am
Qantas has acted ahead of media reports this morning to announce some minor injuries caused by severe air turbulence on an A330 service from Hong Kong to Perth.
This is the full statement:-
Branson calls on UK goverment to let British Airways go broke
June 22, 2009 – 7:34 am
Richard Branson’s call on Sunday for HMG to let British Airways go broke rather than prop it up with bail out money is fiercely controversial.
It is exactly how Branson wants it to be in the circumstances when British Airways is trying yet again to stich up the North Atlantic market with another airline that looks [...]
AF447-The traces disappear
June 22, 2009 – 12:18 am
These plots of the wreckage and victims (red) recovered from the Air France flight AF447 disaster on 1 June show the enormity of the task that confronted search vessels and aircraft mostly provided by Brazil.
The data, released by the French accident investigator, the BEA, is mapped on 6 June, (above) and between then and 10 [...]
Home grown aircraft composites could also cut fossilised carbon emissions
June 20, 2009 – 10:03 am
A concept for turning matter from a single type of plant into a high performance composite material for use in aircraft cabins has won a University of Queensland team first prize in the inaugural Airbus Fly Your Ideas challenge.
It is an idea which minimises the use of energy from fossil carbon releasing fuels in the [...]
Sydney-one soon to be stuffed airport and three statements point to trouble ahead
June 19, 2009 – 5:55 pm
Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese ended the one airport for Sydney policy today in a rider to granting approval to Sydney Airport’s latest 20 year plan.
He said Sydney would need a second airport after 2029, and invited the NSW Government to join in a study to find and develop a site.
Which really means something will have [...]
What’s wrong with this Qantas press release?
June 18, 2009 – 7:28 pm
Here’s a question for anyone thinking of switching to Qantas or staying with them.
What’s wrong with this press release?
For a start it doesn’t sit well with anyone who has checked in on line and printed their own boarding pass for a domestic flight, only to confront a farcical queue to get to the ‘dedicated’ baggage [...]
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