Posted on 07/09/2009 6:52:09 AM PDT by luckybogey
I have attempted to remain open minded throughout the investigation of Air France Flight 447. I had hoped that the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) would come forward and present the facts as known.
The evidence shows this is not the case and as a matter of fact, the only reason Thales pitots are still on the Airbus airplanes is for the protection of European companies and their European labor/workers. One would think that Boeing might want to update their complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
The European aviation industry is more concerned with their own business interest and preserving jobs in Europe than safe air travel. The BEA has lost all creditability as an investigative body...
As shown in my previous postings (here, here, and here) Air France, Airbus, Thales, and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), have known about the pitot icing problems and corresponding “unrealiable airspeed” indicators since 1994. This writer presents the following “open sourced” unclassified documents showing their past involvement, dishonesty and I would recommend that BEA issue a followup interim report as soon as possible...
These targets will be achieved by developing simpler, more reliable and safer equipment than the American systems that dominate the market...
Today, THALES Avionics American competitors gain more and more market shares because of the high quality, high reliability and low cost of their products. Thanks to ADELINE, THALES Avionics will propose, in the future, a new air data product range with improved performances and advanced features.
The transportation industry has already proven its interest to these new concepts, and, if the expected performances are demonstrated, THALES Avionics will increase its market shares and thus will be able to create jobs in services related to air data systems production. Industrial ADELINE partners will take advantage of this expansion...
(Excerpt) Read more at luckybogey.wordpress.com ...
Airbus is a government sponsored enterprise, so this should surprise no one.
A compromised pitot brought down a billion dollar B-2 bomber.
Just sayin’.
pitots
I like the word. Just needs a good definition.
My suggestion: The digits left over after rounding the number pi.
Air Force screw up. A directive was sent to make sure all pitot were heated up and dried. The Air Force didn’t have an effective method of communicating that to all those many B-2 pilots.
What is ADELINE (you appear to have excerpted the definition of this algorithm out of the post).
Big time.
Project ADELINE is an European Commission funded (FP6) Research Type Program
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