[smokingfrog]

What kind of engines does the Airbus use?

[smokingfrog]

Qantas suspends all A380 flights

[beaversmom]

Qantas never crashed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeYf-rhMQIQ

[balch3]

cover story?

[Doc Savage]

Gee, this could have been the 43,776 th center fuel tank explosion on a 747. As you know it’s very routine for these tanks to overheat on the runway and then blam. They’ve been dropping out of the sky for years ever since that first one over Long Island. You remember that one don’t ya?

[TSgt]

The A380 can be fitted with two types of engines: A380-841, A380-842 and A380-843F with Rolls-Royce Trent 900, and the A380-861 and A380-863F with Engine Alliance GP7000 turbofans. The Trent 900 is a derivative of the Trent 800, and the GP7000 has roots from the GE90 and PW4000. The Trent 900 core is a scaled version of the Trent 500, but incorporates the swept fan technology of the stillborn Trent 8104.[101] The GP7200 has a GE90-derived core and PW4090-derived fan and low-pressure turbo-machinery.[102] Only two of the four engines are fitted with thrust reversers.[103]