BTW, a bit off-topic, I just read:
The European Aviation and Safety Agency (EASA) and the American Federal Aviation Administration, FAA gave their "seal of approval" to the successful A380 evacuation trial performed at Airbus' site in Hamburg, Germany, on Sunday, 26th March, during which 853 passengers and 20 crew members left the aircraft within 78 seconds. They herewith validated 853 as the maximum passenger seating capacity, for the A380-800. As per regulation, the evacuation test was performed in complete darkness through only half of the 16 exits of the A380. The exits that had been selected by the Authorities to be operative were not known to any of the passengers and crew before the test. ...The evacuation test was the most stringent ever performed...
As per regulation, the evacuation test was performed in complete darkness through only half of the 16 exits of the A380. The exits that had been selected by the Authorities to be operative were not known to any of the passengers and crew before the test.
...The evacuation test was the most stringent ever performed...
Impressive. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
When I was a kid, my father took me to many airshows. I kept the fascination for flying things over the years.
But moraly it became harder, especialy since most planes and the tecnology involved are military. I could do diary's about modern military planes like the Eurofighter, the Rafale, the Viggen, the JSF,Hawk,the variants of the Mig and Sukhoi and many others.
There is a fascinating world of communication, radar, navigation an weaponsystems involved. The Russians proved their technology was in many fields superior to the rest of the world, yesterday the Soyoez returned safely from a mission to the International Space Station.
Today we see the European country's developing newer and more advenced flying systems like the A400M I describe in this diary. The EU doesn't spend as many resources as the US on this developements, but still it is about huge amounts of money and other resources for facilities, training people and so on.
Belgium has 45 updated , state of the art F-16 supersonic jet fighters. They fly in 17 minutes from the coast to the German border, which is the longest possible distance in Belgium in one straight line. This is ridiculous. They are also capable to drop atomic-bombs of wich several are stored in a US-base in Belgium. This situation doesn't make me feel safe at all.
On ET the main topics are about economics and the policies behind . Military spending is part of it and exposes true meanings of policies. Maybe I should start a diary about this.
The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
Could you post or link more details? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
One man broke his leg and another 32 people suffered minor injuries during an emergency evacuation drill of the new A380 superjumbo in Germany. Plane owner Airbus said the exercise - a key step which the A380 must take to prove its airworthiness - was a "great success" despite the injuries. About 850 passengers and 20 crew were evacuated from the plane in 80 seconds.
Plane owner Airbus said the exercise - a key step which the A380 must take to prove its airworthiness - was a "great success" despite the injuries.
About 850 passengers and 20 crew were evacuated from the plane in 80 seconds.
This is my first post here, so I wanted first to tell you how much I enjoy this place in general, and specifically the "technological" diaries (planes, trains, clocks).
DoDo, you'll find actual stories of people who did participate in this test at flightglobal.com :
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/04/06/Navigation/179/205793/Airbus+A380+evacuation+trial+f ull+report+everyone+off+in.html
Good link! Thanks for sharing that.
Then, on a signal, the athletic young weightlifter at the window quickly takes out the door and throws it away, while the participants literally RUN down the aisle and jump unhesitantly into the chute or onto the wing.
It is a total fiction, and it is not surprizing that there were a few injuries.
