[Moose4]

Gerhard Puttfarcken, head of Airbus's German operations

It's a double ping--aerospace AND silly names!

}:-)4

[Red Badger]

So the wiring was Hamburger and Too-Loose?..........

[kinoxi]

I guess they need more duck tape.

[Yo-Yo]

Translation: "We hand-wired the first SIA aircraft, but we still haven't gotten the automated wiring harness fabrication perfected yet."

[Puckster]

"Airbus on Friday toned down expectations of an immediate solution to the technical glitches which delayed its A380 superjumbo project, saying wiring problems had been solved for the first aircraft only."

Ho Ho! First you had me then you lost me..........

They must be totally lost on the wiring.

Didn't the EU push for the ISO's? Now they can't make heads nor tails out of it.

Anyway, the A320 family was fraught with problems and I hold no hope for the A380 customers that the headaches won't continue.

[Incorrigible]

It will be fully operational from the production of the 26th plane onwards.

They plan on producing more than 26 A380's?

The gross weight problem never seems to get mentioned in these articles nor do I remember it being resolved. That would be a much more difficult problem than the wiring so I guess that needs to be kept on the down low.

[par4]

I read an article in the IEEE magazine just last night on this problem. It seems that the Germans and French were using two different versions of the same autocad program for the drawings which were not 100% compatible.

And on a similar related topic, the wiring in the aircraft is alumninum, not copper. I'm not an aerospace engineer, but every house and business is wired with copper, so that's good enough for me.

[antiRepublicrat]

Airbus expects to start building a common design platform in the summer between its main French and German plants. It will be fully operational from the production of the 26th plane onwards.

In other words, smooth, full-capacity production won't begin until the 26th plane, possibly years hence. Until then, each aircraft will be individually jury-rigged. Do I have that right?

[zipper]

"Airbus on Friday toned down expectations of an immediate solution to the technical glitches which delayed its A380 superjumbo project, saying wiring problems had been solved for the first aircraft only."

I know the feeling. I do that every year with the Christmas lights. I can get them untangled but at the end I can't tell you how I did it!