Wednesday October 17, 10:01 PMCountdown begins for Airbus superjumboThe first Airbus A380 superjumbo landed in Singapore on Wednesday, as the countdown began for next week's maiden commercial flight of the biggest passenger airliner ever built.The Singapore Airlines (SIA) jet touched down at 1040 GMT -- 10 minutes late -- at Changi Airport, where hundreds of guests in business suits toasted its arrival with champagne.[Killed--by-size]The A380 arrived from France, where Airbus officials finally saw off the giant plane after 18 months of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns.Production problems on the double-decker behemoth embarrassed the European manufacturer, a bitter rival of US firm Boeing, but SIA stuck with its initial order of 10 planes and later ordered nine more.At a welcoming ceremony, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called the A380's arrival "a milestone in aviation history" and compared it to the launch of Boeing's 747 jumbo in 1970.The A380 will make its first commercial flight on October 25 from Singapore to Sydney.
Boeing preps 787 for first flightHardwareBy Wolfgang Gruener Monday, May 04, 2009 00:00 Chicago (IL) – Boeing is inching the 787 Dreamliner towards its first flight scheduled to take place late this quarter. The company said that the plane has been moved to the flight line and fuel testing.Fuel testing is the first test in what the company calls a phase of extensive checks the airplane must undergo to be prepared for its maiden flight. ZA001, or plane #1, completed a “rigorous series of tests”, including build verification tests, structures and systems integration tests and landing gear swings, Boeing said. According to the company, this plane also passed a full simulation of the first flight. The company said that the simulation tested all flight controls, hardware and software. The simulation also included manual and automatic landings and an “extensive suite of subsequent ground tests.” Boeing said all 787 structural tests required on the static airframe prior to first flight to be complete as well. “The final test occurred April 21 when the wing and trailing edges were subjected to their limit load - the highest loads expected to be seen in service. The load is about the same as the airplane experiencing 2.5 times the force of gravity,” the company stated."We are making great progress, and moving ever-closer to first flight," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of the 787 Dreamliner program.ZA001 is now scheduled to go through airplane power and systems tests as well as engine runs, which will be followed by final systems checks and high-speed taxi tests. Once those tests are complete, the 787 will take off for its first flight.Boeing currently has 886 orders for the 787.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_bi_ge/us_boeing787Boeing again delays initial 787 test flight By DANIEL LOVERING, AP Manufacturing Writer Daniel Lovering, Ap Manufacturing Writer – 5 mins agoBoeing Co. has again delayed the first test flight of its long-awaited 787 jetliner in the latest setback for an aircraft that has bolstered the company's order book and redefined the way it builds planes.The Chicago-based aerospace giant said Tuesday it needs to reinforce small areas of the plane before conducting the test flight, which Boeing had insisted would occur before July.Boeing said a revised schedule for the flight, as well as first deliveries to customers, will not be announced for several weeks.Shares of Boeing tumbled $4.09, or 8.7 percent, to $42.81 in midday trading.The announcement comes as Boeing, the world's second-largest commercial airplane maker, and European archrival Airbus SA grapple with slumping orders for their jets as the recession dampens demand for air travel and cargo services. Tight credit markets also have muted orders for new planes.The test flight of the 787, a next-generation aircraft built for fuel efficiency with lightweight carbon composite parts, originally was planned for late 2007. But Boeing postponed it repeatedly because of production glitches and a strike that forced the company to shut down its commercial aircraft factories for eight weeks last fall.Deliveries of the long-range widebody, meanwhile, have been delayed four times already. Customers had expected to get the first of the new jets in the first quarter of 2010 — nearly two years behind schedule. The delays have cost Boeing credibility and billions of dollars in anticipated expenses and penalties.Boeing said it discovered an area in the side-of-body section of the aircraft that needs to be reinforced during recent tests on the first of the airplanes.Scott Fancher, Boeing's 787 program manager, said 18 areas measuring about 1 to 2 square inches near the place where each wing meets the fuselage need to be reinforced, for a total of 36 areas that need reinforcement."We are already moving toward a solution," he said in a conference call.During a test late last month that involved bending the 787's wings, workers discovered greater-than-expected stress in the plane's side-of-body structure, according to Pat Shanahan, vice president and general manager of airplane programs for Boeing's commercial airplane division.Preliminary analysis indicated Boeing could go ahead with the test flight, but "after further testing and analysis, which we finished late last week, our team concluded that a productive flight test program could not take place without structural reinforcement in limited areas," he said."This is a structural reinforcement issue, not an issue of materials or workmanship," Shanahan said. "Composites are the right choice for airplane structure."He added: "We will correct this situation and do so with both care and urgency."The 787 is the first commercial jet made mostly of light, sturdy carbon-fiber composites instead of aluminum. Large parts of the plane, such as the fuselage sections and wings, are made in a number of factories around the world and flown in a huge modified 747 to Boeing's widebody plant in the Seattle area, where they are essentially snapped together.The 787 production team will continue testing the airplane, performing tests such as low-speed taxiing, Boeing said. Work also will continue on five other test planes and other 787s in the production system, it said.The 787 is Boeing's first new aircraft since the 777, which was introduced more than a decade ago.Boeing said its financial guidance will be updated to reflect any impact from the changes when the company issues its second quarter 2009 earnings report in July.Paul Nisbet, an analyst at JSA Research, said the announcement was "not good news," and that Boeing had said in recent days at the Paris Air Show that the plane was ready to fly."I don't think it means much overall, but it certainly is a disappointment short-term," he said.
QuoteJune 26, 2009Qantas cancels on Boeing Even before the Qantas decision, the plane-maker had logged only nine net orders so far in 2009 as global economic weakness has spurred a string of cancellations, including 58 Dreamliners. -- PHOTO: REUTERSSYDNEY - BOEING Co, the world's No. 2 plane-maker, suffered another heavy blow to its Dreamliner project on Friday when a major customer, Australia's Qantas Airways, scrapped and deferred orders for 30 new planes.Aviation analysts warned that more Boeing customers could follow Qantas, noting that cancellations of the fuel-efficient, long-haul plane were gaining momentum as airlines worldwide looked to conserve capital during the global recession.Citing the tough operating environment, Qantas cancelled orders for 15 of the B787-9 Dreamliners that had been due for delivery in 2014-15 and deferred for four years an order for another 15 of the same aircraft. It said the decision would save the company US$3 billion (S$4.5 billion) in capital spending.Qantas denied it was reacting to this week's fresh delays to the Dreamliner's development, when the first test flight was set back for a fifth time, but analysts said there was a clear risk of more order cancellations or deferrals from other airlines.'It wouldn't surprise me at all if we see more deferrals and more cancellations, particularly given the economic environment in the US at the moment, it's a complete basket case,' said Bruce Low, investment analyst at Australian fund manager Fortis Investment Partners.'The aviation industry is suffering very badly ... I guess the Boeing delays actually give the airlines an opportunity to pull out or defer.' Boeing's defence unit was recently hit hard by sweeping cuts announced by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates in the Pentagon's fiscal 2010 budget request this year.Even before the Qantas decision, the plane-maker had logged only nine net orders so far in 2009 as global economic weakness has spurred a string of cancellations, including 58 Dreamliners.Rival Airbus faces the same economic pressures. In March, Air France said it would defer taking delivery of the sixth and seventh Airbus A380 aircraft in an order for 12 of the giant planes, to save cash on down payments.Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said in a statement that 'the operating environment for the world's airlines has clearly changed dramatically' since Qantas announced its original B787 order in December 2005.Last month, Qantas said it expected to navigate the current aviation crisis, the industry's worst, without having to further cut capacity or jobs or raise capital.But it has forecast a loss in the second half of its 2009 financial year, and announced in March it would shed 90 top management positions, adding to 1,500 job cuts announced in 2008. Qantas said it retained the ability to buy up to 50 additional aircraft. -- THOMSON REUTERShttp://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Money/Story/STIStory_395668.html
June 26, 2009Qantas cancels on Boeing Even before the Qantas decision, the plane-maker had logged only nine net orders so far in 2009 as global economic weakness has spurred a string of cancellations, including 58 Dreamliners. -- PHOTO: REUTERSSYDNEY - BOEING Co, the world's No. 2 plane-maker, suffered another heavy blow to its Dreamliner project on Friday when a major customer, Australia's Qantas Airways, scrapped and deferred orders for 30 new planes.Aviation analysts warned that more Boeing customers could follow Qantas, noting that cancellations of the fuel-efficient, long-haul plane were gaining momentum as airlines worldwide looked to conserve capital during the global recession.Citing the tough operating environment, Qantas cancelled orders for 15 of the B787-9 Dreamliners that had been due for delivery in 2014-15 and deferred for four years an order for another 15 of the same aircraft. It said the decision would save the company US$3 billion (S$4.5 billion) in capital spending.Qantas denied it was reacting to this week's fresh delays to the Dreamliner's development, when the first test flight was set back for a fifth time, but analysts said there was a clear risk of more order cancellations or deferrals from other airlines.'It wouldn't surprise me at all if we see more deferrals and more cancellations, particularly given the economic environment in the US at the moment, it's a complete basket case,' said Bruce Low, investment analyst at Australian fund manager Fortis Investment Partners.'The aviation industry is suffering very badly ... I guess the Boeing delays actually give the airlines an opportunity to pull out or defer.' Boeing's defence unit was recently hit hard by sweeping cuts announced by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates in the Pentagon's fiscal 2010 budget request this year.Even before the Qantas decision, the plane-maker had logged only nine net orders so far in 2009 as global economic weakness has spurred a string of cancellations, including 58 Dreamliners.Rival Airbus faces the same economic pressures. In March, Air France said it would defer taking delivery of the sixth and seventh Airbus A380 aircraft in an order for 12 of the giant planes, to save cash on down payments.Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said in a statement that 'the operating environment for the world's airlines has clearly changed dramatically' since Qantas announced its original B787 order in December 2005.Last month, Qantas said it expected to navigate the current aviation crisis, the industry's worst, without having to further cut capacity or jobs or raise capital.But it has forecast a loss in the second half of its 2009 financial year, and announced in March it would shed 90 top management positions, adding to 1,500 job cuts announced in 2008. Qantas said it retained the ability to buy up to 50 additional aircraft. -- THOMSON REUTERS
Boeing Buys Plant That Makes Crucial Part of DreamlinerBy CHRISTOPHER DREWPublished: July 7, 2009The Boeing Company celebrated its new 787 Dreamliner as not only a state-of-the-art plane, but as a model of how to streamline its production process by relying on outsourcing.But on Tuesday, the company took a step away from that vision after it agreed to acquire the manufacturing plant of a troubled supplier, Vought Aircraft Industries, for $1 billion.Boeing has already had to contend with other supply and production problems on its delayed 787 Dreamliner, a model considered crucial to the company’s future. It recently postponed its first test flight and has faced bottlenecks at Vought and other suppliers.Part of the trouble has come from Boeing’s creation of a complex global supply chain. It was meant to help the company escape rising labor costs, but has made it harder to control the production process.Heidi Wood, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, wrote in a note to investors that it was possible that Boeing could expand the former Vought plant into a second final assembly line once it increased production.Boeing is putting together the first 787s in Everett, Wash., where a strike by unionized machinists shut down work for eight weeks last fall.Jim Proulx, a Boeing spokesman, said the company had not made any decision about a second production line. Boeing’s union work force and political leaders in Washington State would want to add any additional work in Washington.The former Vought plant, based in North Charleston, S.C., makes parts of the 787’s rear fuselage, and it sits next to a facility that does other work on the fuselage.Boeing surprised investors on June 23 when it delayed the Dreamliner’s initial flight to fix a structural problem where the wings attach to the sides of the plane. The problem involved parts designed by Boeing and two Japanese suppliers. The companies are working together on fixes to the design.The company had promised a week earlier that it would make the flight by June 30. It has not yet announced a new test schedule.Boeing has about 850 orders for what will be its most sophisticated plane. The Dreamliner is made of lightweight carbon composites and is supposed to be more fuel-efficient than other aircraft.Over the last two weeks, Qantas Airways of Australia said it had canceled orders for 15 Dreamliners and delayed deliveries on 15 others. But All Nippon Airways of Japan, which is to take delivery of the first 787, said it would increase its order to 55 planes, from 50, to take advantage of the fuel efficiency.The Dreamliner is nearly two years behind schedule and the delays have hurt the company’s credibility. They are costing it millions of dollars in penalties and concessions to airline customers.David E. Strauss, an analyst at UBS, said there was “a laundry list of payments they’re going to have to make,” including penalties to suppliers who did their work on time. He declined to estimate the total, but he said, “It’s big at this point.”Vought had had problems earlier, and its chief executive, Elmer L. Doty, said Tuesday that the financial demands of the program were “clearly growing beyond what a company of our size can support.”Boeing said it would pay $580 million for the plant and forgive Vought from having to repay previous cash advances. Mr. Proulx said the advances totaled $422 million. Vought, based in Dallas, is owned by the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm. Boeing, which is based in Chicago, assumed Vought’s interest in that facility last year.Mr. Doty told The Dallas Morning News that Vought, which will continue to work on components for the 787 and other planes, had invested twice as much as it thought it would need to handle its work on the Dreamliner.He said that with the credit crisis, the company was not able to find financing for the hundreds of millions of dollars more that it would probably have needed.Ms. Wood said in her note that Boeing’s decision to bring the work in-house would give it greater control over a “historically problematic process.”But Robert Spingarn, an analyst at Credit Suisse, said recently that the acquisition would increase Boeing’s fixed costs.After Boeing delayed the test flight last month, Mr. Springarn said he thought the first Dreamliner delivery would be delayed until the fourth quarter of 2010, compared with Boeing’s goal of next year’s first quarter.He said Boeing might be able to deliver only six planes next year, instead of what Credit Suisse had previously expected to be 33, and that the increase in production could be slower than expected in 2011 and 2012.The delays could provide more breathing room for Airbus, whose ultramodern A350 is years behind the 787 in development. But Airbus has also had other problems, including the recent crashes of two passenger planes in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The causes remain under investigation.
Airbus Sees Demand for 25,000 Jetliners Over 20 Years (Update1)Share | Email | Print | A A ABy Steve RothwellSept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Airbus SAS, the world’s largest maker of commercial aircraft, said airlines will buy 25,000 planes worth $3.1 trillion over the next 20 years, buoyed by Asian sales and increased demand for single-aisle models.The forecast is 3 percent higher than the 24,300-aircraft, 20-year requirement predicted by Toulouse, France-based Airbus in February 2008. Demand for more fuel-efficient planes to replace older models and the growth of cities worldwide will bolster growth, the company said in a report published today.While the airline industry may lose $11 billion in 2009, according to the International Air Transport Association, Airbus Chief Operating Officer John Leahy said order backlogs are holding up. The company predicts 4.6 percent growth in passenger traffic in 2010, rebounding from a 2 percent decline this year.“A lot of people have talked about massive cancellations in the recession, but that’s not really true,” Leahy said at a London briefing. “We really don’t see a lot of cancellations. The airlines tend to take the aircraft even if they have to reschedule them.”Passenger traffic is likely to grow by 4.7 percent a year on average, doubling the total within 15 years, Airbus said. The Asia-Pacific region will account for 31 percent of demand, led by carriers in China and India. Europe will contribute 25 percent of sales and North America 23 percent, it predicted.‘Lion’s Share’“We think we’re relatively well positioned to take the lion’s share of the market,” said Leahy, also head of sales at Airbus, a unit of European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co.Airbus’s prediction that travel will recover next year is more optimistic than at Boeing Co., the world’s second-biggest commercial planemaker, which forecasts traffic will fall as much 8 percent this year and won’t rebound until 2011.The European planemaker raised its estimate for single- aisle deliveries by 2.4 percent, forecasting that almost 17,000 narrowbody aircraft valued at $1.2 trillion are needed, with demand spurred by the growth of discount airlines and increasing route liberalization.“Low-cost carriers are a phenomenon that’s very important” and are “much less damaged by this recession,” Leahy said.Airbus sees demand for 6,250 widebody planes and 1,700 so- called very large aircraft, such as its A380 superjumbo. The company predicts that more than half of aircraft in the latter category will operate in the Asia-Pacific.The company predicts that 850 new-build freighter planes will be needed, 50 fewer than in its previous forecast. Leahy said the cargo market is “probably the worst” he has seen.To contact the reporter on this story: Steve Rothwell in London at srothwell@bloomberg.netLast Updated: September 17, 2009 10:19 EDT
Motor fails on Singapore A380, flight turns backReuters - Jean Baptiste Vey, Crispian Balmer - 1 hour agoPARIS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - An Air Singapore (SIAL.SI) A380 was forced to turn round mid-flight and head back to Paris on Sunday after one of its four engines failed, the head of the airline's French operations said.The doubledecker A380 took off from Paris at 12.30 p.m. (1030 GMT) with 444 passengers aboard and was headed for Singapore, but had to turn round after 2 hours 45 minutes because of the engine problem, airline director Jerry Seah said.The plane landed safely back in France at 5.45 p.m. (1545 GMT) and the passengers were sent to hotels as the airline tried to lay on an alternative flight for them.Seah told Reuters he believed it was the first time the plane had suffered such a problem since it had started operating the Singapore-Paris route earlier this year.The giant jet built by Airbus (EAD.PA) is designed to continue flying with only three engines, but came back to Paris as a safety precaution. The engines on the Singapore A380s are built by Britain's Rolls Royce Group (RR.L).Source: Motor fails on Singapore A380, flight turns back | Industries | Industrials, Materials & Utilities | Reuters
Quote from: GoFlyKiteNow;600042Maybe. But the ash could have been a contributing factor for thepressure turbine blades to warp. Lets wait for the official report.----(UPDATE) SINGAPORE– A troubled Qantas Airbus A380 plane landed in Singapore on Thursday with smoke coming out of its underside and was quickly surrounded by six fire engines, an AFP reporter said.Fire engines immediately swarmed the aircraft as soon is it landed on the tarmac on Changi Airport.“I can see smoke coming out of it,” the reporter said.Debris including what appears to be a piece of the tail of a Qantas jet was also found in the Indonesian town of Batam after a loud mid-air explosion, a witness added.“I didn’t see a plane crash but I heard a loud explosion in the air. There were metal shards coming down from the sky into an industrial area in Batam,” witness Noor Kanwa told AFP.Earlier reports said the plane has experienced engine trouble over Indonesian territory and attempted an emergency landing in Singapore once it had used up its fuel, an Indonesian official told AFP.“According to the airport officials in Batam, who received radar information from Singapore, the aeroplane is trying to make an emergency landing in Singapore,” National Transportation Safety Committee head Tatang Kurniadi said.via : http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?t=79243QuoteQantas plane makes emergency landing in S'pore after losing engine (Updated)No reports of injuries or explosion, says airline spokesmanSINGAPORE: Qantas says one of its planes safely made an emergency landing Thursday in Singapore, after one of the aircraft's engines shut down while flying over Indonesia.A Qantas spokesman in Sydney, Australia, said the A380 aircraft experienced an engine issue soon after taking off from Singapore on a flight to Sydney.The plane had 433 passengers and 26 crew on board.Qantas spokeswoman Emma Kearns said one of four engines on the plane flying from Singapore to Sydney shut down.She added that the plane can safely fly on three engines, but the pilot landed the plane in Singapore to be safe.Kearns said there were no reports of injuries and the airline has not received any reports of an explosion on board. - APhttp://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/11/4/nation/20101104115148&sec=nation
Maybe. But the ash could have been a contributing factor for thepressure turbine blades to warp. Lets wait for the official report.----(UPDATE) SINGAPORE– A troubled Qantas Airbus A380 plane landed in Singapore on Thursday with smoke coming out of its underside and was quickly surrounded by six fire engines, an AFP reporter said.Fire engines immediately swarmed the aircraft as soon is it landed on the tarmac on Changi Airport.“I can see smoke coming out of it,” the reporter said.Debris including what appears to be a piece of the tail of a Qantas jet was also found in the Indonesian town of Batam after a loud mid-air explosion, a witness added.“I didn’t see a plane crash but I heard a loud explosion in the air. There were metal shards coming down from the sky into an industrial area in Batam,” witness Noor Kanwa told AFP.Earlier reports said the plane has experienced engine trouble over Indonesian territory and attempted an emergency landing in Singapore once it had used up its fuel, an Indonesian official told AFP.“According to the airport officials in Batam, who received radar information from Singapore, the aeroplane is trying to make an emergency landing in Singapore,” National Transportation Safety Committee head Tatang Kurniadi said.
Qantas plane makes emergency landing in S'pore after losing engine (Updated)No reports of injuries or explosion, says airline spokesmanSINGAPORE: Qantas says one of its planes safely made an emergency landing Thursday in Singapore, after one of the aircraft's engines shut down while flying over Indonesia.A Qantas spokesman in Sydney, Australia, said the A380 aircraft experienced an engine issue soon after taking off from Singapore on a flight to Sydney.The plane had 433 passengers and 26 crew on board.Qantas spokeswoman Emma Kearns said one of four engines on the plane flying from Singapore to Sydney shut down.She added that the plane can safely fly on three engines, but the pilot landed the plane in Singapore to be safe.Kearns said there were no reports of injuries and the airline has not received any reports of an explosion on board. - AP
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It looks as if one of the fuel cell comparments had a blow out.References below.http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/fuelsystem-faults-raise-fears-of-a380-design-flaws-20090303-8ngr.htmlhttp://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=19d50adf-45ba-4a0e-88bb-e3586b482c9a
Qantas A380 Spitting Parts Spares `Incredibly Lucky' PassengersBloomberg.By Andrea Rothman, Mary Jane Credeur and Howard Mustoe - Nov 5, 2010 7:05 AM GMT+0800 The 466 passengers and crew aboard a Qantas Airways Ltd. Airbus A380 survived a mid-flight engine blowout that aviation specialists said is both extremely rare and potentially fatal.One of the four Rolls-Royce Group Plc Trent 900 engines blew up shortly after flight QF32 left Singapore for Sydney yesterday, piercing the wing and charring the turbine’s casing, with debris left scattered across an Indonesian island. The pilot made an emergency landing in Singapore, and Qantas said it will take its fleet of six A380 jets out of service for checks.The strength of the blast, which ripped off part of the nacelle that houses the engine, could have caused parts to smash through the cabin or wing fuel tanks, bringing down the plane. So-called uncontained failures occur about once a year on average, while fatalities only happen once a decade, said Paul Hayes, director of safety at aviation consulting firm Ascend.“They were incredibly lucky,” said Hans Weber, president of Tecop International Inc., an aviation firm in San Diego, who advises the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on issues including engine safety. “These were highly energetic fragments that can penetrate structures easily as projectiles.” .
The Trent 900 engine was specifically designed for the A380 and is only used on that aircraft. Out of the 14 operators who have ordered the A380, nine have selected the variant with the Trent 900, according to Rolls-Royce. The engine, which has a takeoff thrust of 70,000 pounds, was first certified in 2004 and powered the first-ever flight of an A380 a year later.Each of the four engines weighs 14,190 pounds (6.4 tons) and has a fan diameter of 116 inches (2.9 meters). The Trent 900 uses a so-called three-shaft design that is less common than the two-shaft configuration, making the engine lighter and shorter.Engine failures are described as “uncontained” when the nacelle fails to hold in the debris. The Qantas aircraft involved in the incident was less than three years old and had logged 831 flight cycles until today, according to Airbus. While other Airbus A380 aircraft have experienced malfunctions of engines or other parts, none were as grave as on the Qantas jet.“You can have a very catastrophic incident when there’s an uncontained failure,” said Fred Mirgle, who retired in 2009 as chair of the aviation maintenance department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. “You could lose 300 or 400 people when an engine lets go like that.”
