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To: edcoil

Its an airbus designed by the French and other europeans.They saved money by not putting fuel dumps on!Imagine a cabin fire with full tanks! There isn't a Boeing built that doesn't have fuel dumps. Also, why does Airbus retract their nose gear with a 90 degree twist, is it to save a little space in the retracted mode?? That would be the dumbest idea a reasonable Engineer could come up with. Betcha Boeing doesn't rotate any of their nose gear. And We know if the pilot per chance wiggles the tail rudder a little the entire tail falls off along with the engines.
Thank you, I will fly Boeing everytime!


40 posted on 09/22/2005 9:14:30 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot
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To: True Republican Patriot
Yeah, those Airbus aircraft are just falling out of the skies these days.

There are several Boeing aircraft that don't have the capability to dump fuel; and it's not a safety issue (full tanks are much safer than partially full tanks, as long as they aren't ruptured and atomizing the resulting leak).

It's an aircraft performance issue. Most of the heavies have a far higher max takeoff weight than max landing weight. Therefore provisions must be made to rapidly dump fuel in order to get to a safe landing weight in case of an extreme emergency. The A320 could have turned right around and safely landed with a full bag of gas, but they wanted the plane as light as possible to mitigate damage to the nose gear and stop the plane in as short a distance as possible.

Your lunatic ranting about Airbus aircraft are juvenile and irresponsible. There is not an aeronautical engineer out there, French or otherwise, that would knowingly compromise safety in design.

50 posted on 09/22/2005 9:30:58 AM PDT by liberty_lvr (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.)
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