787 fire while on the ground and unoccupied at BOS

[SWA Bubba]

If it's Boeing, I'm not going ...


Thermal runaway on a battery?

Actually, Andy,

Other than your T-38 time, and I suppose your current (I assume) Airbus A320 gig, it seems like lil ol' Andy dun' a lotta' "going" on Boeings in his lifetime:

B-707/120 (although I suspect you've never actually flown these; this is just your type rating for the smaller-tubed 135 variants)
KC-135E
KC-135R
RC-135U
RC-135V
RC-135W
C-135B
B-727
B-737
B-757
B-767

Oh, how quickly one forgets how sturdy and comforting a Boeing can be....

Bubba

 

[Andy]

Actually, Andy,

Other than your T-38 time, and I suppose your current (I assume) Airbus A320 gig, it seems like lil ol' Andy dun' a lotta' "going" on Boeings in his lifetime:

B-707/120 (although I suspect you've never actually flown these; this is just your type rating for the smaller-tubed 135 variants)
KC-135E
KC-135R
RC-135U
RC-135V
RC-135W
C-135B
B-727
B-737
B-757
B-767

Oh, how quickly one forgets how sturdy and comforting a Boeing can be....

Bubba

Dude, buy a sense of humor.

I'm current on the guppy. What a POS compared to fifi. The NGs are a daily reminder of how Boeing engineers have barely advanced from a 50s design that could use a LOT of improvements.

Two more points:
1) Note the smiley next to my first comment
2) Note the suspected cause in my second comment, which may be unrelated to the 787 design.

 

[Crash Pad]

Never fly the A model of anything.

 

[johnsonrod]

Anderson is beginning to look better and better for his decision to delay 787 entry at Delta....

 

[SWA Bubba]

Dude, buy a sense of humor.

I'm current on the guppy. What a POS compared to fifi. The NGs are a daily reminder of how Boeing engineers have barely advanced from a 50s design that could use a LOT of improvements.

Two more points:
1) Note the smiley next to my first comment
2) Note the suspected cause in my second comment, which may be unrelated to the 787 design.

Use the money I'm not going to spend to upgrade YOUR sense of humor. Note the smiley in MY comment.

Bubba

 

[Andy]

Use the money I'm not going to spend to upgrade YOUR sense of humor. Note the smiley in MY comment.

Bubba

??????? That doesn't make sense unless you're going to send me money. If so, I'll be happy to take your money.
As for the smiley in your comment, it was negated by your detailed post. You spent a lot of time listing every fricking aircraft in my profile including a detailed explanation of your/my civilian equivalent of the KC-135 type rating (707/720) so my comment obviously got under your skin.

Chillax, Bubba. Boeing has a long list of screwups on the 787 so I don't know why you're being so defensive. And I'd consider mistake number one to be the stinkin' control column - there's no good reason to not have sidesticks with current technology.


... and irony alert: Another 787 aircraft aborted it's departure from Logan due to a fuel leak today. http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...d-incident-in-2-days-20130108,0,1140985.story

 

[NEDude]

??????? That doesn't make sense unless you're going to send me money. If so, I'll be happy to take your money.
As for the smiley in your comment, it was negated by your detailed post. You spent a lot of time listing every fricking aircraft in my profile including a detailed explanation of your/my civilian equivalent of the KC-135 type rating (707/720) so my comment obviously got under your skin.

Chillax, Bubba. Boeing has a long list of screwups on the 787 so I don't know why you're being so defensive. And I'd consider mistake number one to be the stinkin' control column - there's no good reason to not have sidesticks with current technology.


... and irony alert: Another 787 aircraft aborted it's departure from Logan due to a fuel leak today. http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...d-incident-in-2-days-20130108,0,1140985.story

Funny story, at my last airline we used Natco facilities for our recurrent G/S and sim, and hired a retired NWA instructor to teach G/S. So needless to say during breaks he was chatting with all of his old NWA instructor buddies. So one day he told us the following story - when NWA ordered the A330, most of the initial instructor group came from the DC-10 group. At first they all started complaining about the "silly" Airbus sidestick and spent countless hours complaining that if it did not have a yoke, it was not a real airplane. Several years later, after NWA ordered the 787, many of those same A330 guys moved over to begin development of the 787 program. All of these guys complained about how "stupid" Boeing was to have a traditional yoke and that they should have gone with the sidestick like Airbus had.

 

[nwaf16dude]

Three words...Change is Bad. End of story.

I don't care if it's a yoke or a side-stick, as long as they show me the money.

 

[SWA Bubba]

??????? That doesn't make sense unless you're going to send me money. If so, I'll be happy to take your money.
As for the smiley in your comment, it was negated by your detailed post. You spent a lot of time listing every fricking aircraft in my profile including a detailed explanation of your/my civilian equivalent of the KC-135 type rating (707/720) so my comment obviously got under your skin.

Chillax, Bubba. Boeing has a long list of screwups on the 787 so I don't know why you're being so defensive. And I'd consider mistake number one to be the stinkin' control column - there's no good reason to not have sidesticks with current technology.


... and irony alert: Another 787 aircraft aborted it's departure from Logan due to a fuel leak today. http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...d-incident-in-2-days-20130108,0,1140985.story

Seriously?

You made a joke, I made a joke. I'm not defensive; you did not get under my skin. Truly, I don't actually care what planes you flew or prefer (I know what the word "prefer" means). It was a joke at your expense, Andy; that's all. You flew 10 zillion Boeings*, so I made the joke that you obviously prefer their comfort to Airbus, even though I knew that wasn't true (uh, that was the actual joke part, by the way), taking all of 30 seconds to copy your list of Boeings. Maybe I needed a 'funnier' smiley face.

Obviously, you didn't get it or it wasn't funny to you (since I'm here explaining it now, and taking waaaay more than 30 seconds to do so), so for that I apologize. I therefore promise that from this day forward I will never make a Boeing vs Airbus joke directed at Andy ever again.

Phew. We good now?

Bubba

* Another joke. Sorry, that was the last one. I promise. Really. This time I mean it.

 

[Andy]

My bad. To me, it read like you were ticked off. My apologies for misreading your intent.