A380 and B787 havemany things in common: High number of risk share partners and involved nationalities (no real novelty for Airbus, but for Boeing), no “old” airline as launch customer, demanding schedule, “modern” design techniques. Some errors and misconceptions made designing the A380 are likely to happen with the B787. The A380 was relatively “bad news”-free until the time of its first flight. That doesn’t have to mean much, but from my internal perspective there were no serious (= extremly concerning) problems in 2004. Most things came apparrent later. Some issues were just expensive or time intensive, some were really serious (= safety and authorties sensitive).
The B787 involves more unvalidated technolgies (something Airbus wanted to avoid for the A380). Unlike other programs Boeing needs to validate some things before the first flight. Probably more bad news to follow.
Schorsch,
That I know and under stand ,any new development has its fair share of problems, Look at one of the Greatest airliners in my opinion Concorde,the designers overcoming not just Technical hurdles ,but problems engineered by it Rivals to become a classic, and the A350 will be no different.
Now the boot is on the other foot and Boeing are running into Problems with the 787, which are dismissed,by some as nothing , yet when the A380 designers were haveing similar problems ,Airbus was slated and denounced by the very same Pepole :rolleyes:
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