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: Airbus
More talk from Airbus about plastic limits on new jets
November 6, 2009 – 5:54 am
Very Large Jets & Mega Cities, present & future
November 4, 2009 – 8:36 pm
Airbus sees some very different uses for its A380s emerging, including short haul high density regional routes, like Sydney-Melbourne, and low cost holiday migrations like those from Japan to Hawaii and Germany to the Caribbean.
Not tomorrow, but within two decades.
All in addition to the A380’s current inaugural roles as a full service flagship airliner plying [...]
Air NZ chooses Airbuses to replace old Boeing 737s
November 3, 2009 – 11:38 am
Boeing can console itself with the near certainty of a large order for new jets from Virgin Blue in the coming weeks or months after this morning losing the contest to replace Air New Zealand’s aged fleet of Boeing 737-300s.
Air NZ has ordered 14 A320s to replace the 15 Boeings involved, and taken options on [...]
Is tin back in for jets?
October 31, 2009 – 10:42 am
News that China is looking hard at using aluminium rather than composites for much of its proposed Comac C919 airliner raises the question as to whether ‘plastic fantastics’ like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350 are mistakes.
Both high composite projects make ambitious claims for the use of non-metallic materials. And the first, the 787, [...]
AF447. A question. Was the radar really working?
October 10, 2009 – 7:50 pm
There is one strange but not necessarily consequential omission in the official interim report into the AF447 disaster.
Nowhere does it confirm that the weather radar was switched on.
It says the ‘correct functioning of the radar’ would have been checked during taxiing to take off. And it summarises the Air France radar operating procedures, which are [...]
AF447: Alternative report fish hooks Airbus, Thales, Air France and the safety regulators on the critical issues
October 6, 2009 – 4:47 pm
An alternative report into the June 1 crash of an Air France A330-200 prepared by the airline’s pilot union takes aim at the airline, at Airbus, and at Thales, the French company that built the pitot tubes or external airspeed measuring devices fitter to the Airbus.
The disaster killed all 228 people on board flight [...]
The shape of jets to come, maybe?
September 18, 2009 – 2:06 pm
This design (above) graces the overnight update to the Airbus Global Market Forecast to 2028.
Is it a successor to the A380, already? Or intended perhaps to fill the size gap between it and the A350-1000? Or is it just a fantasy, like the original shark fin concept of how the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was (never) [...]
Hitler’s 787 is delayed again
August 8, 2009 – 5:51 am
After another very bad week for those who still have jobs in the airline business, or shares in the carriers or some of the businesses that depend on them that were bought more than a year ago, a bit more comic relief might be in order .
Note the clear evidence toward the end that the [...]
AF447-world wide ‘pitot’ speed probe replacement to be mandated for all Airbus A330s and A340s
August 2, 2009 – 9:20 am
What is the bigger picture in relation to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) notifying airlines late on Friday that it would make compulsory the replacement of two out of three air speed pitots on Airbus A330s and A340s with a US model rather than a French model?
EASA says that where applicable two [...]
Is the 787 Dreamliner fiasco more about toxic corporate cultures than a flawed design?
July 23, 2009 – 5:16 pm
With every lie and evasion that Boeing utters about its 787 Dreamliner project the story becomes less about an airliner than the wider issue of cultural failures in corporations in the 21st century.
Why can’t contemporary corporations speak truthfully and candidly about their products, or services or innovations?
What makes them think that they own the ‘reality’ [...]
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