virginblue4 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2008, 836 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 14152 times:
Just seen this photo on the site, and the top of the tail has part of Airbus House colours on it. My first reaction was maybe this could be an ex test aircraft, being refurbished but then there are no previous photos of it. And it is CN69 so it's a new one. Any ideas?
N14AZ From Germany, joined Feb 2007, 2341 posts, RR: 25 Reply 3, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 13924 times:
Quoting N14AZ (Reply 2): Seems as if they had to replace that part of tail fin. It happened before
Quoting Airvan00 (Reply 1): If you look closely at that pic you can see the trailing cone.
Yes, I just saw that there must be more behind it. I never saw production A 380s with this sensor attached. But why should they test whatsoever if they have two prototypes available in TLS (001 and 004)?
flyingalex From Germany, joined Jul 2010, 1007 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 13914 times:
As others have said, it appears to be a spare part. It will be fixed in due time, but they needed a provisional fix, and this was it.
Quoting virginblue4 (Thread starter): P.S. - I know this might not actually be the NEXT A380 for Lufthansa, but I just couldn't think of another way to put it
It's #3 in line for delivery. LH received D-AIMD in mid-November, and this aircraft will be D-AIMG, with -ME and -MF scheduled to be delivered before it.
You could have written "What's going on with this future Lufthansa A380?", for example.
[Edited 2010-12-03 01:06:37]
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flyingalex From Germany, joined Jul 2010, 1007 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 13886 times:
Quoting N14AZ (Reply 3): Yes, I just saw that there must be more behind it. I never saw production A 380s with this sensor attached. But why should they test whatsoever if they have two prototypes available in TLS (001 and 004)?
If it is a test that must be performed with each aircraft, but a test that is needed only once, then it would make a lot of sense financially to have just one or two sensor assemblies and and to mount them on each aircraft as needed.
I can't think of what such a test would be though.
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N14AZ From Germany, joined Feb 2007, 2341 posts, RR: 25 Reply 6, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 13754 times:
Quoting flyingalex (Reply 5): I can't think of what such a test would be though.
Exactly. Furthermore, for some airframes - I would say every second airframe - they manage to combine FF with the ferry flight to XFW. I never saw any picture of an A 380 arriving in XFW with that sensor attached, except for one of the former prototypes sold to EK, MSN 007 or 009 - don't remember which one.
dairy From Germany, joined Nov 2003, 237 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 12346 times:
I only heard SAN FRANCISCO will be served with Lufthansa A380 in 2011 - but I don't know if it will be very next route to be announced, but then: one of the next routes to be announced
flyingalex From Germany, joined Jul 2010, 1007 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 10171 times:
Quoting SR4ever (Reply 7): Any more news as to the next destinations where LH will operate 388s?
LH will keep trying to operate A380s to PVG (which they wanted initially, but got PEK instead).
I have also heard they want to serve India with the A380 (probably BOM, possibly DEL).
Other than that, no idea. JFK, maybe.
Last year, I was at an event where Mayrhuber said South America is unlikely. Otherwise I would have thought GRU, because that route has such strong demand for Business Class and the A380 has a lot of premium seats.
Quoting LHRNUE (Reply 9): Do we know already the names for E, F and G?
Not yet. My guess is one of them will be Johannesburg.
The other two will probably get something from the list above: New York, Schanghai (this is how it's spelled in German, before anyone complains), Mumbai... we'll see.
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kanban From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 2498 posts, RR: 21 Reply 12, posted (2 years 6 months 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 6294 times:
Quoting N14AZ (Reply 2): Seems as if they had to replace that part of tail fin. It happened before
If it is just a temporary replacement fairing they would not need the drogue... That said, the drogue cable goes somewhere, there is a reel and motor attached either in the fin or aft body...
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