I wish Iraq had Su34 with guided rockets more than anything else right now to deal with the senseless murderous.

Su-25 would be the far better option. [Or A-10]

Simple, rugged airframes that don’t need loads of systems maintained rigorously. Have good persistence and have nice slow flight speeds for target determination.

As far as Airbus goes, it will take a long time to make a profit…but that doesn’t seem to worry anyone…as it seems to be as much about creating jobs as airplanes.

That is a bit of a fallacious argument.

Every other major aircraft manufacturer is acutely aware of retaining their skill-set; so will try to run enough programs continuously to keep people, and thus the skills, within their company. Depending on the size of the company, the scale of the programs will vary.

For Airbus, see A330/A340 -> A380 -> A400M -> A350 -> A30X

For Boeing, 777 -> 767-400 -> 747-8 -> 787 and now 777X. [I’ll leave out the sonic cruiser]

Bombardier and Embraer are smaller, and thus run smaller programs, such as the CRJ-1000 to keep their engineering divisions active and fresh.

Yes, Airbus probably should have targeted the space where the 777x is going instead of the A380, but there is much more to running a large aircraft company than pure profit on any one given program.

For example, the 380 is popular among passengers but not that much among shareholders.

Hmmm, but if Emirates are turning record profits and revenue (as Dxb Driver has said) and the A380 is a massive part of their fleet – does your statement add up?

It looks like the A380 cannot be exploited by all airlines, indeed, perhaps it can only be exploited by a few – but those that can are benefiting from it.

so it will be down to the US to support the Iraqis and then get blamed for whatever happens after.

Erm.

Actually, that well known ally and special relation of the Great Satan… Iran… has supposedly already committed special forces to the fight to help the Iraqi government.

edit: Its all a bit like C&C Generals… with ISIS of course being the GLA!

an engine surge does not correlate with:

In fact, it went down slightly different. Today T-50 initially rose to demonstrate the possibilities for our Indian guests. Around 12 pm on board lost contact. Was only partial remaining. On the 3rd turn there was an alarm, shavings in the right engines, the pilot was forced to shut down the right engine. Since there was no communication, he passed over the runway waving wings, letting understand the RP (EDIT: ATC) problems on board. Successfully able to land the plane on one engine. Turned to the nearest taxiway, the pilot immediately turned off the left engine. Then all the fun started! RP gave the command to leave the plane immediately. Pilot turned around and saw that intense belching black smoke poured out of the right engine. Without waiting for any ladders pilot jumped out of the cockpit. Seeing a burning puddle of fuel underneath the plane he ran a good 100 meters.

Nor does an engine surge cause a severe fire without there being multiple cascading failures.

The fuel has pooled below the left side of the aircraft; the resulting heat from the fire there has melted the epoxy on structure above leading to fibres trailing loose.

The success of the Max is really sticking in the craw of some avid Bus fans on the internet.

Given the posts in this thread, I’ll assume that is directed at me and will respond as such.

How small, insecure and paranoid you must feel if you think any questioning of information is a direct attack on Boeing.

“how the Max, a 60 year old design, can garner so many orders” is a result of great engineers thinking of excellent innovations then having the skill to execute their vision, as well as being able to refine existing concepts to a highly optimal state.

Great engineering is great engineering, regardless of whether it is done in Seattle, Saint Louis, Everett, Toulouse, Filton, Hamburg, Beijing, Shanghai or Moscow.

If anyone here is deluded enough to think the sun shines out Airbus’ ar$€, then they are complete fools. The corporate levels of Airbus are borderline inept at times, with some of the engineering quality of similar standard.

just for the sake of info, no RBE2 is not advertised as a jammer. Jamming is performed by three AESA antennas on 360° on RAfale, aswell as on Typhoon (praetorian). REally nothing new about it….

Hmmm, I think I recall a head honcho in the AdlA mentioning the electronic warfare aspects that RBE2 would bring to Rafale.

No idea where I’d get a source you’d be happy with for it though.