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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Sky....I'm convinced you've got shares in one of Boeing's competitors  |
No, in fact I prefer - in simulations
- Boeing's cockpit and ergonomy philosophy over that of Airbus. It's just that I cannot hold bad some grim black humor due to past exchanges of fire between both companies, and my general doubt about the design being ripe with all its battery-depending electrification while they used batteries that are inapt for the demands ion this plane, it has MUCH higher electricity demands than any other. The new nbatteries they now installed, are not new at all, but are just the old ones in more heavily isolated steel cassettes. Which means they are still a critical factor they have been unable to replace - which is no wonder since the design of the plane is such that you just cannot take out the electric system like in other planes and put in another and expect to still have the 787 with its advertised characteristics after the operation. The design was too ambitious for the technology available at that time, and I am pretty certain that its just a question of time before this proves itself once again. The 787 is one of those planes I would always refuse to fly in.
And one thing nobody can deny: this latest in a long chain of bad news about the 787 again adds to the tremendous image disaster Boeing is suffering from this airplane. Considering losses in orders for 787s that go to Airbus now, it costs them probably already billions, and that is not including the costs of the added development work and the improvisations they needed and need to do with the battery system. In comparison, the micro-cracks in the hull of the A380 seem to have not such a big fallout for Airbus so far.