A380 Gear/Wheel Problems

[Whale Rider]

Yeah... dayum is right! That ain't going to fly. The first time some ham-fisted cap'n gets a hold of the tiller she'll be riding on the rims. On the plus side the Michelins seem to be holding up well... maybe they ought to send 'em to Hockenheim.

cc

Another plus for Michelin is that they will sell millions of tires to Singapore, ETIHAD, Emerates, Korean, Virgin, Quantas, Thai, FedEX, UPS etc. after tire changes every 2 landings.

 

[hellas]

From what I here in the cargo world, FedEx may indeed cancel the 380 orders due to the floors cannot withstand the weight in relation to the size of the airplane for cargo and airbus' anticipation. The engineers are scrambling to come up with a solution, to add, they do not have enough engineers to work on the 350 and are in absolute panic mode due to the late arrival of the 350's with the timing of the southeast asia/india avaition explosion. Looks like europe's socialist company arrogance has finally caught up with it.

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

I think my Dash 8 could disappear into the ruts made by that thing. Better fix it Frenchie... That ain't gonna work.

 

[J32driver]

Better fix it Frenchie... That ain't gonna work.

BBBWWWAAAHHHAAAAAA!

 

[J32driver]

Well crap. Just found this:

http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt...=dji&news_id=dji-00081820050715&date=20050715

 

[cforst513]

Well crap. Just found this:

http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&cat=INDUSTRY&feed=dji&news_id=dji-00081820050715&date=20050715

lies.... they're all lies..... LIES, I TELL YOU!!!!! LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Nice to know the forum is watched so carefully by the press... Sheessh!

 

[FR8mastr]

I dont see how it matters, unless they had tugs pushing on the mains in a side motion. If you are towing the plane via the nosewheel, no matter what you do should that happen? any heavy drivers please pipe in.

 

[ATRedneck]

Does anybody else find it ironic that when you click on the links to see the pictures, there's a frog at the top of the page?



(P.S. Huge nads on the photographer for getting that close to those overstressed doughnuts!)

 

[habubuaza]

Sooo... the wheels are bent.....why?

 

[Workin'Stiff]

The twisting motion of the trucks in a tight turn seems to come to mind as to why there's damage...

 

[I.P. Freley]

The wheels don't look bent, but the tires sure are twisted at alarming angles.

 

[habubuaza]

I'm sorry there is no way that's normal.

 

[I.P. Freley]

Well if you believe the article linked above, that was the whole point of the exercise.

Woe be to the pavement in the first picture, though!

 

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