How an Airbus A380 survived an engine failure

CFI A&P said:
If the A380 is aging, what do you call the MD-80s that Allegiant is flying ?
Click to expand...



The same thing you call the ones American is still flying.
Mad Dogs never die. They just get more and more ornery.
So the Mad Dog is the Jack LaLanne of the sky while the 380 is the female gymnast... all done at 15 years old??

Maybe there's something to be said for an ornery airplane over an automated one.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Crop Duster said:
The same thing you call the ones American is still flying.
Mad Dogs never die. They just get more and more ornery.
So the Mad Dog is the Jack LaLanne of the sky while the 380 is the female gymnast... all done at 15 years old??

Maybe there's something to be said for an ornery airplane over an automated one.
Click to expand...

For what it's worth, I was talking to an AA mechanic a while back and he was telling me that the Super 80 was far more reliable than the Airbuses they were getting on property at the time. There's something to be said for those old mad dogs, aside from being loud back between the screws I personally like riding on them.
 
desertdog71 said:
For what it's worth, I was talking to an AA mechanic a while back and he was telling me that the Super 80 was far more reliable than the Airbuses they were getting on property at the time. There's something to be said for those old mad dogs, aside from being loud back between the screws I personally like riding on them.
Click to expand...

The Airbus was the most reliable plane I ever flew besides my own.
 
Saying the A380 is a well built plane because it withstood an engine failure etc is like saying Honda is a well built car because it didn't crash when the tire blew out on the highway. No two events are alike.
 
Just to make everyone feel old, I got to "play" around the scrapyard where the first 777 was being scrapped, being that it happened to be literally a ten minute drive from where my grandpa lives. Took a bunch of pics, some ended up on the A.net. That was in 2006, only 11 years after the type's debut.

...Then I got a nasty email from a head honcho at the scrap company threatening me with litigation and that I was "trespassing" even though all the employees on site knew I was there and let me out on the ramp.
 
jskibo said:
Nothing worse that going through immigration and customs with 700 other blokes on the same flight.

I avoid any A380 segments.
Click to expand...

Ugh was picking up my sister in law the other day from JFK and 5 min before her Turkish 777 hit the gate a KAL A380 unloaded. Didn't see the sister for a good 2 hours after her flight landed.
 
NovemberEcho said:
Ugh was picking up my sister in law the other day from JFK and 5 min before her Turkish 777 hit the gate a KAL A380 unloaded. Didn't see the sister for a good 2 hours after her flight landed.
Click to expand...
There's nothing quite as invasive and inefficient as returning to your own country, except for maybe India, that's a goat rodeo all its own.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top