Simviation Forum - A380 painted and with full 4 engines

Reply #30 - Jan 16^th, 2005 at 5:37pm

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Assuming they dont cancel it first. I dont know the latest, on that though.

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Reply #31 - Jan 16^th, 2005 at 5:53pm

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Assuming they dont cancel it first. I dont know the latest, on that though.

Very doubtful they'd cancel it, even if the current US Government is emphasising the Army more than the USAF/USN/USMC... If fact that may have a beneficial effect for the JSF/JCA if the F-22 order is scaled down a lot. Both countries will need the aircraft come 2012 to replace ageing fleets (by that time the Harrier concept will be nearly 50 years old as a aircraft and engine - ok, the current airframes date from the late 80s/early 90s, and it's still a very capable aeroplane), and with the number of export orders and industrial involvement as well, I suspect this would be very unlikely...

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Reply #32 - Jan 16^th, 2005 at 5:57pm

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I think alot of it could be decided by the F/22 situation. Also here the carrier situation could decide lot of it. Theres still a huge debate going on about the super carriers, and its actually risking the project altogether apparently. You have better contacts than i do, so you might be able to confirm this, but the latest news i heard, was that they are strongly considering only building 1 carrier now.

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Reply #33 - Jan 16^th, 2005 at 6:03pm

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I think alot of it could be decided by the F/22 situation. Also here the carrier situation could decide lot of it. Theres still a huge debate going on about the super carriers, and its actually risking the project altogether apparently. You have better contacts than i do, so you might be able to confirm this, but the latest news i heard, was that they are strongly considering only building 1 carrier now.

Your guess is as good as mine... at least we'll be having it for land based occupations too...
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Reply #34 - Jan 17^th, 2005 at 2:58am

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Here's a recent cnn article on the a380. As suggested, looks like they're looking into reducing the paint weight to about 60% of normal...

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050116%2F15524...

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Reply #35 - Jan 17^th, 2005 at 12:49pm

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has any been to the Airbus website recently, they have really cool countdown timer. 8)

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Reply #36 - Jan 17^th, 2005 at 3:34pm

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Ha, did you see the "Win an A380" thing? I'm gonna win it and put it in my garage for safekeeping. Grin

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Reply #37 - Jan 18^th, 2005 at 12:27pm

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Hi there,

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,337281,00.html

In that article (german) you will find some pictures showing the
A-380 in it´s new livery at it´s "rollout" (it didn´t move a
meter

) today.
click on the row of 3 pictures to open the gallery.

By the way.. a technican pointed yesterday on TV that the
A-380 will be 5 tons heavier than planed

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Reply #38 - Jan 18^th, 2005 at 3:02pm

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Very doubtful they'd cancel it, even if the current US Government is emphasising the Army more than the USAF/USN/USMC... If fact that may have a beneficial effect for the JSF/JCA if the F-22 order is scaled down a lot. Both countries will need the aircraft come 2012 to replace ageing fleets (by that time the Harrier concept will be nearly 50 years old as a aircraft and engine - ok, the current airframes date from the late 80s/early 90s, and it's still a very capable aeroplane), and with the number of export orders and industrial involvement as well, I suspect this would be very unlikely...

If british aviation was today what it was in the 60's the Harrier would be supersonic by now. And if the P.1154 project wasn't cancelled then the Harrier would have been supersonic from the very outset. As I see it, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And the Harrier certainly ain't broke. I mean, at least it can take off from a carrier. Which puts it one step ahead of the JSF. Grin

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Reply #39 - Jan 18^th, 2005 at 3:04pm

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=3&u=/ap/france_airbus_a380...

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Reply #40 - Jan 18^th, 2005 at 5:17pm

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If british aviation was today what it was in the 60's the Harrier would be supersonic by now. And if the P.1154 project wasn't cancelled then the Harrier would have been supersonic from the very outset. As I see it, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And the Harrier certainly ain't broke. I mean, at least it can take off from a carrier. Which puts it one step ahead of the JSF. Grin

Until the carriers disappear...
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Reply #41 - Jan 19^th, 2005 at 2:40pm

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Which would see the Sea Harrier retired, the JSF cancelled, and ultimately scrapped completely because one of the biggest buyers has backed out. Grin

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Reply #42 - Jan 19^th, 2005 at 3:27pm