Posted on 06/01/2005 5:32:47 PM PDT by Nachum
They should change the name of the company to "Airbust"!
The sweet smell of Euro Rot.
Must have run out of "super-glue"
Now what? More titanium over aluminum? More composites? Nah - new paint.......Sounds so French.
There's a TV documentary about how they build this thing. Freakin' unbelievable! They built big sections in different countries, then have to haul huge chunks from country A to country B on ships, river barges, and trucks. (The barge just cleared the bridges.) No wonder they can't get any built on time!
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/a380/ :
"A380 aircraft sections will be transported from sites in Broughton (UK), Hamburg (Germany), Puerto Real (Spain) and St Nazaire (France) in a specially constructed huge roll-on/roll-off vessel, the "Ville de Bordeaux", built by Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing, China. The vessel was launched in July 2003 and has the largest water stern door (22m x 14m) ever built on a ro-ro vessel. The vessel will take the components to Bordeaux. From there they will be transported via specially constructed barges up the Garonne River and then transferred by road trailer to the final assembly line in Toulouse."
"No wonder they can't get any built on time! "
The main reason would be that it's built by a bunch of socialist weasels.
It doesn't matter how they arrive, just how often.
Contrast that to the way boeing is building the 787. They have outfitted special 747's to schlep the sections from country to country and state to state. Much more efficient and fast.
Another Euro-debacle...
It is a make-work project (like most socialist "enterprises"). Sinc it is subsidised by various European countries, each one has to have a part in the production system so that unemployment rates can be kept artificially low (low by modern European standards). They chose an inefficient transit network for components so that there will be plenty of jobs to spread around at rate-payers expense.
Mumbo Jumbo
...your boat
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