Umm wouldnt you inquire about it had you had a big launch order and were supposed to be getting the jet on commercially money making routes by now but havent ??

U bet i would… 🙂

Not wiring per say , but problems come from the fact that the plants in tolouse and the plants in hamburg were using differnt gen of CATIA which lead to things going wrong from which the current wiring problems stem –

actually i am amazed by that 300km of wiring per craft figure…

No the 747 is a jumbo ( it had that title since decades ) , the A380 is something else – whatever similar name airbus can come up with that gives it the credit for being huge !!

If this is made in Japan, i would call it the Sumo, but since its made in Europe, hmm…

I think its pretty ok to just blind the satellites imaging devices for their flight over said territories… as long as no permanent damages on the lens that render the multi-billion cost of launching such satellites and the satellites themselves wasted. If permanent damages are inflicted, this will instead amount to damaging America’s properties over international space. Thus a breach in some form of international law.

So that meant bare hands does it? they built the MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-21 with their bare hands :diablo:

I think crobato mean that during those times, russia builds aircraft using manpower + tools and not by automated machinery.

much like high production cars in japan are built almost entirely using sophisticated machinery, while some real expensive classy cars like rolls royce are hand built. at the end of the day u still get cars!

Seriously guys, i’m not here to agree or disagree with what SOC has mentioned! i am seriously interested to know exactly what kind of aerodynamic flaws that are inherent in the Super Hornet… i’m not here to look at some smileys… if pointing to a reliable and informative source is too difficult, i shall take back my request… 🙂

Be nice if it wasn’t aerodynamically flawed, too 😀

any source?

It was performed on the airshow circuit in the late 1970’s after the F-16 won the LWF competition and the YF-17 was relegated to other tasks. Haven’t found a video online yet.

Is that the reason why that maneuver is named cobra? The name given to YF-17 if I’m not wrong.