Airbus A380 test wing breaks just below ultimate load target

Flight International ^ | 16 February 2006 | MAX KINGSLEY-JONES

[HardStarboard]

>>>I'd prefer a Boeing product whenever possible.<<<

If it ain't Boeing, I'm not 'goin!

[Petronski]

I'd prefer a Boeing product whenever possible.

You know what they say: "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going."

[Petronski]

Nineteen seconds.


I hate you.

[VOA]

One Pugeot was more than enough for me to understand French engineering excellence.

If anyone challenges your opinion...just tell them to watch a documentary
on the whole history of building the Panama Canal!

That episode is enough explanation for why too many French had
lots of disdain for Americans.
Besides our saving their chestnuts in two World Wars.

[Erasmus]

I know a guy who breaks airplane wings for a living. He says it's a great deal of fun....

I'll bet he pulled 'em off of flies as a kid.

< ]B^)

[NCC-1701]

Great minds think alike. :)

[maestro]

Airbus A380 test wing breaks just below ultimate load target
...due to 'Good Old Boy' in-house-engineering meeting unreasonable deadlines. "Ship it Anyway!".....ie. 'any-way'....$$$$

[sgtbono2002]

I always thought they did this kind of stuff before they built the friggin thing and flew one.

[pepperdog]

Maybe they're just going to have really athletic passengers.

[farlander]

Thank you for that clarification. Now I won't be flying them under *any* circumstances. I guess they are screwed. That's too bad.

As I said, it's not like they were going to sell any/much of those anyway, but this, pretty much puts the nail in that (flying) coffin.

[Cobra64]

The video I have of the Boeing 777 wing test showed they got to 154% of design limit load before the wings broke. When the wings let go, it sounds like a cannon going off.

Where we get a copy of the video?

[Max in Utah]

Actually, we typically shoot a four pound (MILSPEC) dead chicken at over 400 kts at the target....

I'd hate to eat a MILSPEC chicken.

Especially while sitting in a cockpit.

[Frank_Discussion]

Thanks. I knew there were regs that applied here.

[TalBlack]

"Aren't these the people who's tail fin broke off in NYC in 2001 killing like 280 people???"

Yeah, on account of the pilot used the rudder.

[sionnsar]

A380: The Big Pig

[Bender2]

[GOP_1900AD]

If computers were designed with these sorts of margins, well, let's just say that there would be a whole lot less cussin' goin' on!

[HardStarboard]

>>>Actually, we typically shoot a four pound (MILSPEC) dead chicken at over 400 kts at the target....<<<

Are you aware of the story that when British Aerospace heard that Boeing was testing engine/bird crashes with a specially designed air-cannon shooting chickens into a running jet engine, they requested copies of the design. Boeing dutifully sent them plans.

British Aerospace evidently called Boeing up about six months later and said they were having horrendus problems with their test program. Boeing flew over an engineer to help. After hearing that the cannon was evidently too powerful because the tests were destroying the impeller and fan blades in the engines, the Boeing guy asked to witness a test.

Word has it that he saw the problem right away; he commented "aah...we thaw the chickens first", and caught a Boeing flight back to Seattle.

I heard that story years ago - do you know if it is true. True or not - its a great story!!! LOL

[Bender2]

[COEXERJ145]

21st Century Jet

21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777

Both links are to the same video, just different sources. This show was originally a PBS series about building the 777.