Get your will ready if flying Airbus

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You can't break a Boeing aircraft from its controls. There is nothing you can do with stick, rudder and throttles to structurally break them short of nosediving into terra firma.
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I personally watch 787s being assembled on a daily basis. The aircraft is a work of art. The level of detail and quality is the best I've ever seen. It's really amazing.
 
WASHINGTON—U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk claimed victory Monday in a World Trade Organization panel ruling that Boeing Co. had received unfair subsidies, saying support for the U.S. plane maker was dwarfed by the level of improper funding that the European Union has provided to Airbus.
 
Funny you guys think there is much US vs EU competition in Boeing vs Airbus considering Airbus employs a huge number of US aviation experts for the critical jobs, some that worked at Boeing and some for the other US plane makers like Lockheed etc. :)
 
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still trust incompetent European engineering? LOL

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f4e6a98a-687c-11e1-a6cc-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1oqCxFKMA

March 8, 2012 9:01 pm
Emirates berates Airbus over superjumbo cracks
By Andrew Parker in London and James Boxell in Paris

Emirates Airline, the world’s largest operator of Airbus’s A380 superjumbo, has lambasted the aircraft maker and plans to seek compensation after complaining of widespread disruption to the carrier following the discovery of wing cracks on the jet.
Emirates is having to temporarily ground all of its 21 superjumbos – six at any one time – while the wing cracks are fixed.

Airbus has suffered acute embarrassment and angered some of its customers following the discovery of two types of cracks on a L-shaped bracket that connects the A380 wing skin to its internal structure.

Regulators last month ordered airlines to carry out inspections of all A380s once they have completed 1,300 flights after concluding the cracks could compromise the aircraft’s structural integrity.

Singapore Airlines , the first carrier to operate the A380 back in 2007, has found cracks on all 10 superjumbos that it has inspected so far. Air France, the first European carrier to operate the A380, is inspecting one superjumbo.

UPDATE 1-Boeing dwarfs Airbus orders in Jan-Feb

* Airbus sold 97 aircraft, Boeing 387 in Jan-Feb

European planemaker Airbus reshuffled its order book but sold no previously unassigned aircraft in February and remains well behind Boeing since the start of the year, company data showed on Friday.
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Imagine raising your hand in that huge organization to stop production for safety reasons.

There will be more of this stuff to come.
 
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