19-year-old grandson flew to France and back last Aug on coupla 380's. Yes,
at 19, he is impressionable, but he WAS VERY impressed. BTW, I've told him
several times since he was 14 or so, "By the time I was your age, I had been
all the way to Raleigh, on a bus." (50 mi.)
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "OK Don" <okd...@gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Quantas and Airbus A380
*FYI - *
(Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways hopes to have its grounded fleet of
six Airbus A380s flying again "within days" following urgent checks after
an
engine failure, chief executive Alan Joyce said on Saturday.
Joyce said he was optimistic that the world's largest passenger plane
would
pass the tests, as two safety incidents on consecutive days overshadowed
lavish celebrations to mark the airline's 90th anniversary this month.
The airline grounded its six A380s after an engine failure on one of the
aircraft on Thursday during a flight to Australia, which forced it to make
an emergency landing in Singapore.
It marked the biggest incident to date for the world's largest passenger
plane, which has been in service since 2007. The incident forced other
airlines to recheck their own A380s.
"We are hopeful that within days we will have our A380 fleet flying
again,"
Joyce said at an event in Sydney to mark the anniversary this month of the
founding of Qantas in 1920.
In a second incident on Friday, a Boeing 747 en route to Australia was
also
forced to turn back to Singapore. Joyce said an engine on that plane
produced "smoke and sparks" but called it a "contained engine failure" and
said there were no plans to ground the airline's 747 fleet.
"We are not concerned about our 747 fleet," he said.
However, the incidents have cast a shadow over Qantas' anniversary
celebrations, which on Saturday included a visit by Hollywood actor John
Travolta, who is a pilot and an aviation enthusiast.
Travolta piloted his own vintage 707 in old Qantas livery for the cameras
before voicing his personal support for the airline.
"The Qantas brand around the world is very strong," Travolta said.
A Qantas spokeswoman told Reuters that although both Thursday and Friday's
incidents involved Rolls-Royce engines they were of different types and
the
incidents were distinct.
"They are different aircraft and they are different engines. They are very
different incidents," she said.
Shares in Rolls-Royce, Airbus parent EADS and Qantas all lost ground on
Friday following Thursday's incident.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A435P20101106?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=76
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OK Don
2001 ML320
1992 300D 2.5T
1990 300D 2.5T
1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager
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