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To: Hardraade
The big airbus is a piece of crap, only suited for arabs with too much camel competition. Tell me when they can reliably match two electrical fittings together ;).

You mean Arabs, Germans, French, Singapore and Austrailia. And I think they got the two electrical fittings to fit together. I think you were referring to the tail mounted camera, that was about 2 inches too short. This is a super easy mistake to make, when you have a strain relief every 'x' inches over a run of several hundred feet. Easy to make, easy to fix.

70 posted on 03/21/2011 11:09:29 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Hodar
And I think they got the two electrical fittings to fit together. I think you were referring to the tail mounted camera, that was about 2 inches too short. This is a super easy mistake to make,

No, I'm talking about that embarassment of having to redo thousands, if not *all* the links due to different standards used. It's the kind of minor scandal that tend to crop up whenever british *and* diverse EU contractors try technology. You know, like the old Citroens where you had to hoist out the engine to change sparkplugs :)).

77 posted on 03/21/2011 12:02:07 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Hodar

Now wings that fail the strength test are not so easy to fix.


78 posted on 03/21/2011 12:08:43 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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