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Flying the Airbus A380
FloatsomNJetsom writes "So the largest passenger airplane in the world actually is pretty large inside — Popular Mechanics has a great article and video from their test flight on the brand new double-decker Airbus A380. This includes footage of takeoff, interviews with the pilot and test engineer, a rundown on the bar, the two staircases, and an attempt to walk down a crowded aisle from one end of the plane to the other without having to say 'excuse me.'"
Fuck up royally by doing something as stupid as not standardizing software on their great big engineering project, thereby getting the great majority of their business orders for the new 380 cancelled? Oh yeah, real smart.
I couldn't give a fuck if you were chinese, mate. Your comments border on the absurd. Boeing fucked around for years with the sonic liner and other lunacy before finally coming up with the 787 as a stopgap, becuase they had no real vision for more than a fucking decade. Finally, they kicked out the bosses who were fucking around screwing the secretaries and the shareholders and got their act together. LO and behold, dumbass, the same thing has happened to Airbus, who have sacked the managers and are retrenching a whole bunch of people in order to get their act together. What is more, dumbfuck, Airbus restarted the whole A350 fiasco in order to be more competitive with the 787, very much like Boeing scrapped the whole sonic liner bullshit when no one was interested.
So, to recap, you fucking clown, it's not a case of my country versus your country nut company versus that company, each goimg through the normal cycle of business operation in that segment of industry.
Jeesus, people like you make me weep.