Airbus has sent another signal that there are some plastic limits to its enthusiasm for advanced composites in new airliners after all.
Following John Leahy’s answers to Plane Talking’s inquiries in Sydney on Wednesday, November 4, this item is being carried by Bloomberg:
By Sabine Pirone
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Airbus SAS, the world’s largest maker
of passenger jets, [...]
Tag Archives: A350
More talk from Airbus about plastic limits on new jets
November 6, 2009 – 5:54 am
The 787 calamity: Lies and evasions continue
July 23, 2009 – 1:07 am
In a few hours time Boeing is to conduct a conference call on its earnings outlook.
However this story in The Seattle Times is the real story, one of a company that continues to lie and misrepresent the calamity that the 787 Dreamliner project has become.
The original lie that Boeing used to makes fools of customers [...]
Dreamliner-An Impossible Dream?
June 28, 2009 – 9:21 am
The most alarming question to arise from the Dreamliner fiasco is whether high composite airliners are doomed to fail.
Not fail as in fail to reach production, although that is a possibility even at this stage, but fail as in start crashing after large numbers of the two high composite airliners in question, the Boeing 787 [...]
Where might the Dreamliner fiasco take Boeing and Airbus?
June 26, 2009 – 7:35 pm
It needs to be recognised that the 787 project has the potential to ruin the Boeing Commercial Airplane business and force the company as a whole to re-organise its defence, space and other technologies activities into a separated entity.
Such thoughts are probably already being entertained in EADS, the owner of Airbus, as to how it [...]
Dreamliner ‘Neverliner’ bonanza for Airbus-up to 12 more A330s for Jetstar, maybe.
June 25, 2009 – 9:08 am
The numbers varied, but the hot tip earlier this morning was that up to 12 Airbus A330s will be added to the Jetstar fleet by late 2010 or early 2011 to replace the 787 capacity Boeing has failed to deliver according to any of its past broken promises.
This was followed by another hot tip that [...]
Qantas review of 787 program moving toward conclusion
June 24, 2009 – 5:33 pm
Boeing has a new definition of wing. It is ’side of airplane’.
This means it wasn’t really the wing that was starting to break two months ago under static testing, it was just the side of the Dreamliner. Easily fixed. Could have flown on time. Nothing to worry about.
This tripe, swallowed in its entirety by the [...]
AirAsia X and Jetstar and the contest between their plastic fantasic airliners
June 17, 2009 – 7:54 pm
The AirAsia X order for 10 Airbus A350-900s plus 5 options announced at the Paris Air Show sets up an interesting contest with Jetstar, which is supposed to get the first 10 or 15 Boeing 787-8s in the currently deferred Qantas group order for 65 of the Dreamliners.
Each type is the competing Airbus or Boeing [...]
FAA bends rules for Airbus as well as Boeing
February 10, 2009 – 8:53 am
The Seattle Times reports that the FAA has bent the rules for making fuel tanks lightning proof to help the much delayed Boeing 787 Dreamliner achieve certification. As usual with anything about the Dreamliner, this will inevitably cause a frenzy of fandom angst among those with a mental age of about 10. However the changes [...]
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