Wrong.The eighteen months start from today.Like always.

How convenient.

That rules out clipping a sea wall I guess

Thanks for your insightful comment.

Boeing Co. (BA) is checking for hairline wing cracks on some 787 Dreamliners in production after supplier Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (7011) alerted the planemaker about possible risks to the aircraft. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-07/boeing-checks-787s-wings-for-cracks-on-mitsubishi-n...

You never seen a boat in free fall? Most injuries is from ships crashing into waves going from whatever knots to zero in no time or dropping into the wave trough.
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I see. The problem is not the negative Gs but the sudden stop against a wall of water.

A big old third derivative. Jerk.

Glad he made it through relatively unscathed. But will Mama Viking allow more shenanigans in the future?

http://agmetalminer.com/2012/02/14/cracks-airbus-a380-wings-put-pressure-bae-systems/ The firm says the finishing of the holes, the application of the fasteners , and the less flexible nature of the 7449 T7651 alloy used , have all contributed to undue stresses in the area of the bond. Those stupid...

Wow! Ebaums World is still around?

How can you say it is beyond our control? The role of human activity In its recently released Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, conclude...

So your position is "I already have cancer so I might as well smoke two packs a day until I die?" No, my position is; Don't waste taxpayer's money on stupid research of stuff that's beyond our control. How can you say it is beyond our control? The role of human activity In its recently re...

I fix everything that I have the means to fix: I change parts on my cars if it can be done in my garage, I re-wire my house, fix my appliances, and yes I build my own computers. Question: without people hiring you to fix stuff, would you have an alternative income? You seem resentful for customers....

box would be depressurized (meaning no combustion would be possible) Just curious, whys is that? Per He's becoming middle aged...explosion...combustion...both contain s,i,o,n...both are related to fire and heat and oxidation...parlour talking on an aviation forum, scratching your watch and winding ...

Back on topic. So when I am at FL390 over the Pacific Ocean near the ETOPS180 point, and the battery has its event in its compartment, what is going to happen? You would not notice it. If there was venting then the pressure disc would open, any gasses would vent overboard, and the box would be depr...

Sorry to put it this way but the world will be a better place when the baby boomers are gone. f***ing stupidity is mind boggling. Listen Boilerpuss, you're not the first generation to think they are smarter than the previous... Why is it I have to fix everything for all the younger people I know......

Caveat: Even with a heat sheild, a recent battery event burnt the paint off the outside of the plane...

Source?

Sorry to put it this way but the world will be a better place when the baby boomers are gone. f***ing stupidity is mind boggling. This is quite the tidbit... Old farts talk about the olden days when they would choose a heavier, lower capacity battery that didn't burn up laptop computers and planes ...

Sorry to put it this way but the world will be a better place when the baby boomers are gone. f***ing stupidity is mind boggling.

Still didn't answer my question.

Where did it fail catastrophically, and what fire?

Your stubbornness and refusal to accept the truth in favor of your own misguided perceptions reminds me a lot of the republicans and climate change.

In all cases it is accepted that some small percentage of parts will fail before their replacement interval (which may be the airplane life). Anybody telling you their part will never ever fail is probably trying to sell you something. So you design the parts to be reliable, you design your schedul...

Venting is not benign. Lithium batteries vent due to excessive internal pressure. The pressure is typically caused by excessive heat. The venting just relieves the pressure to prevent the cell wall from rupturing. But you are right, I don't know whether this "unplanned thermal event" melt...

What's astonishing is that Gabriel has been on the NYC Subway and lived to tell the tale.

I'm still itchy from it.

Canada produced both this moron and that Celine girl. It would have been a bad track record, but, fortunately, Canada also produced Diana Krall, who has the absolute sexiest voice I have ever heard.

Nobody likes that cunt. Don't bring Celine down to his level.

When you say that any component can and will fail one aims to make sure that service or replacement takes place before that happens. In this case failure is accepted in service. Totally wrong, and I am amazed that it is accepted by those who shall ensure aviation safety. Redundancy, backups, failsa...

Maybe the turbulence woke up the pilots and they realized they didn't have the fuel to reach Beijing?

Venting is not benign. Lithium batteries vent due to excessive internal pressure. The pressure is typically caused by excessive heat. The venting just relieves the pressure to prevent the cell wall from rupturing. But you are right, I don't know whether this "unplanned thermal event" melt...