Sacre bleu!!

[Spin]

Ok, hands up anyone who has pulled, pushed or otherwise caused an aircraft to gently nudge something else? Unfortunately I don't think this one will just buff out.

 

This happened shortly before the recent Paris Air Show and involved the Airbus A380 factory demonstrator aircraft.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Oops.

 

I can see a couple of changes coming for the A380. A new placard in the cockpit. "WILL IT FIT?" And two new groundcrew to wingwalk the monster around the airport.

 

ozzie

 

 

[Cosmick]

What do you reckon that would cost:yikes:

 

 

[dodo]

Why do you ask? I can see that buying that winglet would make a complete starboard wing for a 95.10 ultralight, but where would you get the port side?

 

dodo

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Why do you ask? I can see that buying that winglet would make a complete starboard wing for a 95.10 ultralight, but where would you get the port side?dodo

Qantas has a left wing with a pretty big hole near the inboard pylon.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

parking sensors in the winglets?

 

 

[djpacro]

A missed opportunity for Australia - the 380 wingtips were designed and in production in Australia but the contract was let go.

 

 

[foxy]

BUGGER!!!! :big_grin:

 

 

[sfGnome]

I like the two blokes in the lower left corner of the first photo.

 

"I told you to watch where you're going!"

 

"Yeah, well what about that big scrape you put down the side parking at Westfield last year?"

 

"You always bring that up, don't you? You're just like your mother." :baldy:

 

"Stop bringing my mother into it" :DirtDOG:

 

 

[Thalass]

Man that's a major airport design failure!Or tow-route planning failure haha

 

 

[winsor68]

We have a chart at work (its been there for over 6 years now so would be out of date now) that lists the price of various 737 aircraft parts.... Quoted price for 1xwinglet--- $1 000 000!

 

 

[.Evan.]

Quoted price for 1xwinglet--- $1 000 000!

Ouch!!!

 

 

[Powerin]

Embraer should have left the winglet (actually a fence) there....it nearly matches their logo....

 

 

[kgwilson]

OK I'll put my hand up. Some years ago my wife and I & the dog took a club C172 from Hamilton to Nelson in NZ to visit family for Christmas. We unloaded outside the Aero Club & my Nieces boyfriend hopped in & we taxied off to the itinerant tie down area where I'd been many times before. There were a couple of blokes there installing white painted tyres with tie down pickets. Back then, there was no security fence, just some wooden posts with 3 x number 8 wires between them as a boundary. I was waved to a completed tie down point & I seem to remember thinking that they were fairly close to the fence so I taxied on to the grass but had to make an almost 180 degree turn to get lined up & needed plenty of power with the left hand brake full on. It wouldn't move so I released the brake pressure a bit & she began to move so I then applied full brake and the tail swung round and ........................ You guessed it the horizontal stabiliser collided with one of the fence posts. The plastic tip was ripped off and the aluminium leading edge was a bit dinged for a few centimetres.

 

The tie down picket installers came over & started an argument, one of them in an "I told you so" tone about the pickets being too close to the fence.

 

When we walked back to the club my Nieces boyfriend jubilantly announced to everyone within about a 100 metre hearing range "I've just survived my first plane crash". It was all a bit embarrassing but I managed to get the local maintenance guys who thought the whole issue was quite amusing to fix it within a couple of days, & then I had to file an incident report.