Posted on 03/21/2006 6:52:00 PM PST by SW6906
7 Min Time lapse video showing the production process involved in building an Airbus A380.
How it can be efficient to do all of that complicated moving of parts by water (only at low tide) and truck (only at night) where they had to build special handling equipment and modify roads, buildings and bridges is beyond me.
Ping!
Thought you might enjoy this.
Cool video...and cool plane, even if it is French!
No kidding.... they move the parts all over the place.
I know Paleo is going to ping you, but I couldn't wait!
Neat. Thanx
Thanks for the ping -- wild stuff!
I still like Boeing's version better, tho.
Doesn't need to be efficient...it is a government make-work program for the Europeans.
Yup!
nice video
An incredible engineering project.
The Industrial Engineers that designed the sub-assembly transportation process should be shot. It's quite possibly the most inefficent way to put an airplane together that I've ever seen. Way to use your manpower France.
If Air-bust didn't have Euro-PEON taxpayer money to waste and actually had to be a profitable business, they would streamline their manufacturing processes and build everything at the same site.
Politics, politics, politics. They have to spread the work around.
ping - bkmrk - look at later - bump thing
To be fair, US companies do a lot of the same ridiculous transportation processes. F-18 fuselages are built in California then shipped to Missouri for final assembly costing a fortune in shipping and insurance costs, all so that people in both states get jobs. But I certainly would hate to be living in one of those houses on the route when the parts come down the street at 2 am and miss your front facade by 3-6 inches. Good thing they probably won't sell that many. They're at 159 and counting, but I'd bet Kingfisher never takes delivery on their 5, and if Emirates didn't get essentially free gas, they'd be hard pressed to find uses for 43 of these beasts. They still need to sell about 100 more to just break even, and orders are dropping off.
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