Yellowtail

I'm sure Aibus will be fine and dropping the 380 made great business sense, you just can't continue losing so much money.

The 380 is a fine aircraft, will continue to be supported and should easily be around for another 20-30 years.

Parts and service is a huge revenue stream for commercial aircraft builders and the 380 program could well turn into a nice profit center for Airbus.

40 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Airbus Soars to Record High After Q4 Earnings Beat, A380 Program Closure

 

Airbus SE  (EADSY) shares traded at an all-time high Thursday after the Franco-German planemaker and key Boeing Co. (BA - Get Report) rival posted stronger-than-expected fourth quarter earnings, issued a robust 2019 outlook for aircraft deliveries and said it would formally scrap it struggling A380 jumbo jet program. 

 

Airbus said adjusted operating profits for the three months ending in December rose 56% from the same period last year to €3.1 billion as revenues jumped 11% to €23.286 billion, both of which firmly topped analysts' forecasts. Airbus said it sees overall deliveries rising as much as 11.25% this year to around 890 aircraft, and plans to boost production of its narrow-body A320 to 60 per month by the middle of this year.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/earnings/airbus-soars-to-record-high-after-q4-earnings-beat-a380-program-closure-14866432

 

Poached

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

22% of inmates in federal prison were non US citizens. Such inmates were either deemed to be in the country illegally or facing upcoming deportation proceedings.

 

https://www.openinvest.co/blog/statistics-prison-america/

Why not provide the corresponding population statistics?

Doesn't fit the narrative huh?

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

It has just been announced. The deflector in chief, has just shot himself in the foot, again. He declared a national emergency, over a fake, made up border (Trump wall of hubris) crisis. This will be the end for him. 65% of Americans polled, including many conservatives, said they did NOT want a national emergency invoked. Another tone deaf move, by the neophyte, who cannot negotiate a deal, to save his life, or his political career.

 

Want some real facts? Despite his protestations to the contrary, and his fake political rhetoric, Americans are the real problem here. 80.7% of the prison population in the US, are American citizens. Americans and naturalized Americans commit three times as many homicides annually, as illegal immigrants, and nine time as many murders as legal immigrants. Those are facts which can easily be verified, by anyone who is concerned with truth, rather than slogans and false, vitriolic campaign nonsense, meant to drum up racism, hatred and division. Rudy said truth is not truth. Well, the reality is, truth is truth, despite what this madman would have us believe.

Why not provide the corresponding population statistics? 

Clutch

Hate

Relatively easy to convert right-hand drive to left or dual-drive. They even sell kits in the US to convert left to right..

Automatics are much easier than manuals...

resentment

21 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

Pity about the back doors blowing off. 

They built 386 of them, they went out of production in 1988, and there are still 140 in operation so they couldn't have been that bad...

Yes, Boeing is scheduled to build 948 this year, has a backlog of 5,873 units and makes money on everyone...

Boeing has a bigger backlog of the 747 (24) than Airbus has of the 380....

Looks like the same backpack that is on Amazon for $29 so probably legit.

Not likely they will offer a lifetime warranty in Thailand though...

7 minutes ago, Redline said:

In any case, there is no emergency, and everyone knows that.  Trump doesn’t care about the country, but if this goes through, there will be a national emergency on guns in the future.  It actually is more of a national emergency, considering immigration is comparatively low nowadays 

Everyone on the left knows it.

6 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

Apparently China is in the process of making a copy of the A380 called the Airboss 380.  They plan to save a lot of money by using plastic rivets. 

Will they build them at the AIrbus plant Tianjin?

Thank you Harry Reid!

4 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

It is easy to spot because Boeing is doing all the right moves. The shares I hold speak for themselves. Boeing is a very well run company on the forefront of technological advancements and in an industry that has an almost impossible bar to enter. They did record numbers of plane sales this year. There is literally nothing to not like about them at the moment.

 

I don't think you have to be American to realize this. 

While Airbus is hemorrhaging money on every A380 they sell...

The new B777X that is supposed to test fly this year will carry up to 425 passengers with two engines...

Actually a little longer than the A380

1 hour ago, Grouse said:

I liked the DC10 very much

 

That was before they let peasants fly and price was everything!

 

I still dress properly for a flight ????

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Great aircraft, later re-labeled MD11.... I grew up about 10 miles from the Douglas plant in Long Beach where it was built.

My first flight was a Delta L1011 from Orlando to Los Angeles, and it cost over $800...

Envy 

3 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

As far as I'm aware only Honda built a 5 cyl 125 and that was a 4 stroke but both Yamaha and Suzuki made 125 V4 stroker's back in the 60's .. 

 

I believe 4-stroke technology is what gave Honda a jump on the competition way back.

I saw a graph 10-15 years ago of motorcycle sales in Thailand. It spanned about 10 years, and it started with Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha all having about equal marker shares. Honda introduced a 4-strock and in a couple years they had 80-90% of the market. Each of the other companies introduced 4-strokes soon after and started regaining sales, but I'm not sure where it's at now. 

Chicago 

omnivore 

house

While they could well have been laughing at you, I doubt they were laughing about you picking up a one baht coin.

I pick up any coin I see, whether I dropped it or not.

If you drop something and don't pick it up is it not littering? 

Farm