[databoss]

Dreamliner and A380 ridiculous albatrosses and unecessary....

[dr_lew]

It’s certainly hard to accept that cracks in structural elements are not a safety issue. Maybe they mean it’s not an IMMEDIATE safety issue.

[Seaplaner]

...traced back to a manufacturing issue. Airbus has confirmed that it has no effect on flight safety.

I would love to believe this.

I'm not so sure, however. (Caution, I am NOT an engineer, so my opinion is merely intuitive reasoning.)

So, aero engineers, please help me out here.

Wing rib feet help translate the stresses from the skin (via the feet) through the ribs to the stringers and then concentrates on the spars and then the carry-through. Is this close?

If the feet are cracking, does this not mean that the stresses are exceeding the calculated loads (including safety margins); and that there might (might) be stresses that were not accounted for in design?

Again, I don't know, I'm just asking.

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[G Larry]

While it was still on the drawing board, I projected the 380 would have the shortest lifespan of any craft in the history of the commercial jet fleet.

[ebshumidors]

I’m glad Fedex didn’t buy them. Wait until the ‘too short’ wiring problems arise.

[Cyman]

Sorry but in something that humungous there ain’t no such thing as minor cracks. Minor cracks are found in potato chips, plaster walls, hand mirrors and junior plumbers not in something that takes me 7 miles into the clouds.

[Josh Painter]

Too big to fail fly

[Cyman]

Sorry but in something that humungous there ain’t no such thing as minor cracks. Minor cracks are found in potato chips, plaster walls, hand mirrors and junior plumbers not in something that takes me 7 miles into the clouds.

[JPG]

I remember the cracks on the then new jet, the Comet...except they developed around the square windows and resulted in the wings falling off in flight. Major engineering oops.

[Noob1999]

...................The airline last month found “minor” cracks on another one of its A380s, but the spokeswoman said that the “type two” cracking that prompted the airworthiness directive hasn’t been found on Qantas aircraft........................

Huh?? Quantus has cracking, but “airworthiness directives” haven’t been found on Quantas aircraft??

So I guess that the “minor cracking” only needs duct tape, but keeping the aircraft out of service for a week means fiberglass tape and epoxy!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Listen up gang.Words to live by.”If it aint Boeing,I aint going.Carry on.

[Eye of Unk]

My next flight to Oz WON”T be with Qantas, everyone knows how cheap they are at maintenance. The A380 just makes the problems bigger.