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Airbus Solves A380 Wiring Glitch
BBC ^ | 1-21-2007

Posted on 01/21/2007 3:54:57 PM PST by blam

Airbus solves A380 wiring glitch

Singapore Airlines has agreed to buy 19 A380s

Airbus has fixed electrical problems related to its A380 superjumbo, which have led to major delivery delays for the planemaker. The group said the news meant it had "passed a major milestone" for the plane's production.

Deliveries to Singapore Airlines, its launch customer, were now on track to arrive in October, it said.

Problems with the A380 have left Airbus two years behind with deliveries, hitting shares at parent company EADS.

"We have finished the electrical installation," said Airbus spokesman Tore Prang. "We have handed the aircraft to the cabin equipment team to install the first A380."

Costly delays

Last week, Airbus chief executive Louis Gallois said the firm was "determined to complete this first delivery in October 2007, as we announced, and to prepare ourselves for the next deliveries in 2008".

Singapore Airlines has agreed to buy 19 A380s from the firm. Other customers include Thai Airways, Virgin and Australian flag-carrier Qantas.

However, delays to the A380 have already cost the firm more than $6bn (£3.3bn) and Airbus has warned there could be additional charges to come.

Last week, the European group also revealed it had fallen behind US rival Boeing in securing orders for the first time since 2000.

Airbus won 824 new orders last year, down from 1,111 in 2005, and below Boeing's 1,050 haul.

UK job worries

Meanwhile, a report in the Financial Times warned that Airbus's manufacturing base in the UK - which employs 13,000 people - could be under threat.

The FT quoted Airbus executive vice president Tom Williams as saying there was "a risk" the company may award a £100m ($197m) contract to make wings for the A350 to rival plants in Germany or Spain.

The fuel-efficient, medium-sized long haul jet is seen as Airbus's direct challenger to Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner".

The Dreamliner is a long-range, midsized, wide-body, twin-engine passenger airliner capable of carrying 200-350 passengers.


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KEYWORDS: a380; aerospace; airbus; boeing; glitch
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1 posted on 01/21/2007 3:54:58 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

"Glitch" is a woefully inadqueate term for all of the wiring issues that this plane encountered.


2 posted on 01/21/2007 3:56:15 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: blam

A Glitch?!! Part of the wiring design was done in Germany, and the other in France...they use DIFFERENT SOFTWARE...the designs didn't match up. What a friggin screw up.


3 posted on 01/21/2007 3:58:07 PM PST by spyone
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To: blam

Hey air
us i have a dirty word for ya,
Boeing.
And they are going to eat your lunch.
An American Company.


4 posted on 01/21/2007 3:58:54 PM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: July 4th
I wonder how long it will be before the wiring wears through its insulation. I'm guessing half the french solution to this was thinning the insulation, and allowing tighter clearance through holes.

Ever own a french car???

5 posted on 01/21/2007 4:00:34 PM PST by null and void (Propaganda doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it often works better if it doesn't.)
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To: July 4th

Wireless avionics .... We don't need no stinkin wires! :-)


6 posted on 01/21/2007 4:00:35 PM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: blam

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7 posted on 01/21/2007 4:01:40 PM PST by TommyDale (If we don't put a stop to this global warming, we will all be dead in 10,000 years!)
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8 posted on 01/21/2007 4:02:04 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: null and void

"Ever own a french car???"

Wasn't there a recent story about french cars bursting into flames due to faulty wiring?


9 posted on 01/21/2007 4:06:25 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: blam

Never again flying on anything but boeing if I can help it.


10 posted on 01/21/2007 4:07:44 PM PST by MARKUSPRIME
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To: driftdiver

Faulty wiring or Islamic supremacist rioters - can't remember which ...


11 posted on 01/21/2007 4:10:33 PM PST by Monkey King
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To: blam

bump


12 posted on 01/21/2007 4:11:55 PM PST by VOA
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To: spyone

How about French copper wire, plugged into a German aluminum socket? LOL!


13 posted on 01/21/2007 4:12:31 PM PST by TommyDale (If we don't put a stop to this global warming, we will all be dead in 10,000 years!)
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To: blam

Now if they can only figure out how to keep the tailfins from breaking off the 320s while in flight.................


14 posted on 01/21/2007 4:12:33 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: MARKUSPRIME

If it ain't Boeing you ain't going? :)


15 posted on 01/21/2007 4:12:33 PM PST by Textide
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To: Balding_Eagle

Or how about minimizing wake turbulence that requires planes to stay twice as far apart as a 747. Or how about the fact that their sales are made in US Dollars but their sales are make in Euros. A great reverse currency hedge that is guaranteed to lose money no matter what the currency.


16 posted on 01/21/2007 4:14:56 PM PST by appeal2
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To: driftdiver

Or shame...


17 posted on 01/21/2007 4:25:40 PM PST by null and void (Propaganda doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it often works better if it doesn't.)
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To: blam

Re-arranging the deck chairs on Titanic.Tic,tic,tic or glug,glug,glug


18 posted on 01/21/2007 4:31:45 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: Boazo

That looks like telephone wires to me.


19 posted on 01/21/2007 4:41:53 PM PST by B4Ranch (Press "1" for English, or Press "2" and you will be disconnected until you learn to speak English.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

A380 ping


20 posted on 01/21/2007 4:50:13 PM PST by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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