QF32? - A380 Emergency Landing at Changi - Page 15

Radi K · #**141** 11th November 2010, 11:17 PM

Wow, great job by the crew then!

Brian Wilkes · #**142** 11th November 2010, 11:21 PM

Must be a good airplane (A380) then to keep flying like the Memphis Belle!

Ash W · #**143** 12th November 2010, 01:22 AM

Goes to show what a well designed aircraft the A380 is, if it can still be brought home safley with all that damage and systems issues. Clearly Airbus has learned from previous incidents in other aircraft and applied that to the design of the beast.

Philip Argy · #**144** 12th November 2010, 07:24 AM

I must say I was under the impression that "containment" was a more rigorously applied requirement than appears from recent events to be the case. Given the close to catastrophic crippling caused by the ejection of so much high speed shrapnel I suspect that design rules are going to be tightened even further, and testing will go well beyond the classic firing of frozen turkeys into fan blades.

Andrew M · #**145** 12th November 2010, 10:21 AM

So how long til QF A380's are flying again..... This year ?

Mick F · #**146** 12th November 2010, 10:40 AM

Phillip, the chickens into the fan blades test is only for bird strikes. The test for blade containment is conducted by placing charges at the root of one fan blade and then detonating that charge to simulate a fan blade breaking from the root.

Hoping very very much that they're all back and working by March, I just paid several thousand dollars a few weeks ago to fly on them,

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Mick

Andrew M · #**147** 12th November 2010, 10:46 AM

I have 4 x SQA380 flights up the front in late Jan.....

Not happy if I am moved to an older 777 or 747.....

Mark B · #**148** 12th November 2010, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mick F

Hoping very very much that they're all back and working by March, I just paid several thousand dollars a few weeks ago to fly on them,

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If the damage being reported is anything to go by, doesn't sound like Nancy Bird will be back by then.

The others, one would hope so!

Brendan Lawrence · #**149** 12th November 2010, 06:05 PM

For those of you who may not have seen this video on YouTube, I highly recommend you watch... It's the successful blade-off test of the Trent 900 engine conducted by Rolls-Royce prior to commissioning on the A380... Quite interesting, and as you can see; an effectively contained engine failure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA

Obviously events took a different path on the QF32.

Montague S · #**150** 12th November 2010, 06:18 PM

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...12/3065263.htm

progress being made.