The A380 wing broke today during structural testing. Will it be a safe airplane?
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As far as the issue is concerned that it broke because they wanted it to break, in structural engg such testing doesnt suggest that something is weak and should not make press headlines in that case.\n\nBut if this news is out there, it means that there are some structural issues with the wing or its joints or something like that. And discussion on these can be done based on exact technical data which will be with Airbus Engineers.\n\nIt would be too vague to comment whether or not there will be requirement for major modifications. I think it answers your questions
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Aeronautical engineering
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The grammar and spelling of this question make is hard to understand you. I thnk you are either asking or staing that there is an increase in aircraft CRASHES, not crushes, this year. (Don't know why this is in the health & beauty section!)\nThe statistics show that there is no increase, so I am not sure why you are asking.....
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Everything you want to know....\n\nhttp://www.howstuffworks.com/airplane.htm
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no harm to the plane will be, but the arms of the guy who did it would be twisted off by the passengers.
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It is necessarily true that a plane would be built IF nothing makes that impossible.  It might be impossible because the parts are not in the junkyard, and the parts could be aluminum atoms.  Or it may be impossible because the tornado does not have the ability to bond the broken windshield fragments, only smash them together, which breaks them down.\n\nFrom infinity big bangs, there would be me typing this and you reading it...seven...carry the...infinity times.
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My suggestion is don't be cheap and buy a real one.\nYou don't understand the positive and negative forces\non the frame and wing spar. It's not like building a kite\nand take it out for it's first flight. But If you think that you can\nbuild one and fly it with no experience with building or even\nflying one go right a head, I love it when I see some knuckle\nhead make the news, I just laugh my azz off.
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It is when a bird gets sucked into the engines. Lightning passes through the plane and in most cases doesn't damage too many things if at all since it just goes through the skin of the aircraft. A bird strike to the jet engines, depending on the size of the bird can disable the engines completely cutting off power and thrust.\n\nYou may think that these metal engines should just cut the bird up without any issue. However, one must realize that the engine operates at such high speeds that any object remotely hard will damage the blades. The blades inside the compressor are under huge amounts of force and heat. Thus, they are very sensitive to strikes.\n\nThese strikes will begin the initiation of very small cracks on the blades which will in turn create larger cracks and thus having the blades break completely. When a piece of a blade flies off, that is where the real damage comes from. It is a chain reaction and the whole engine is gone in a split second.\n\nyou can find more about the topic here\nhttp://www.fodnews.com/
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Companies of the size and reputation of Boeing and Airbus cannot make Chinese type planes. With a properly trained/experienced pilot, both the planes are safe - one cannot say the same about many other makes!
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Ah, the Spruce Goose was the largest airPLANE ever built. More on that  story below. This person asked about the largest airCRAFT ever built, which would be a dirigible.  "Ended in disaster" must mean the Hindenberg!  I am not sure if the Hindenberg was the absolute largest dirigible, but it certainly was one of the largest. The Hindenberg burst into flames upon docking in New Jersey someplace in the 30's and pretty much ended the Dirigible business. That incident is where we get the phrase "Oh, the humanity!"  which is often mocked, in my opinion inappropriately. That is an interesting whole story itself but is off topic.\n\n\nThe Spruce Goose: During WWII, metals were in short supply;  all those battleships and overseas ore shipping routes inaccessible, I suppose. So, Howard Hughes' aircraft company was encouraged by the government to try and build aircraft from alternative materials.  Wood is light and strong, so it was a natural thought.\n\nProblem is, one piece of wood can have a very different density and even strength than another. Doing the structural analysis on such a craft and keeping it balanced is an absolute NIGHTMARE.  I don't know if the spruce goose itself ever flew but it was a prototype and the conclusion of this engineering study was that this wood idea was impractical for large aircraft. \n\nNo doubt you can find more details on The Hindenberg, The Spruce Goose and "Oh, the Humanity!" in wikipedia.\n\n(This is not quite an Astronomy question.)
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I was less than a quarter mile away from the Pentagon and I was looking right at that plane--- normal commercial airliner--- when it went in. I'm usually all about the conspiracy theories but this one is bunk.  I smelled the jet fuel burning and saw the bits of plane fall from the sky along with people's clothes from their exploded luggage.
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I would suggest puchasing a new one as well, you may be able to repair that, but the structure itself may have been compromised and I wouldn't want to risk having it break entirely.
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Flying in a plane is perfectly safe. Crashing is a bit of a problem, though.\n\nThere are lots of really strange and unpleasant things that can and do happen to us in everyday life. I think the best policy is to be vigilant without being so worried that the good things actually pass us by.\n\nWhen you realize that the risk-assessment that we all do on a daily basis is pretty flawed, and mostly irrational, you could either be just as scared of flying, but even more frightened about crossing the road, or you could put it all in perspective.\n\nA few years ago I settled on the idea that worrying too much about what is going to happen to me (beyond taking reasonable care of myself, not smoking, obeying street signs, and the like) was more a function of egotism, of putting too high a value on my own life. This, paradoxically, means that I was building myself up rather more than I deserved or needed to. \n\nThis may sound a little odd at first, but if I look at your position, here's how it would go: are you afraid of the plane crashing? or are you afraid that YOU are going to die in a plane crash? There's subtle difference. If you don't put any more psychological importance on your own life than you do on the other anonymous people on the plane, you're much less likely to be paranoid about flying - and much more likely to pay attention to the statistics that show that airplanes are relatively safe transport.\n\nIf you're living now, what's the big deal about dying, anyway? We've had this opportunity to experience the world, and someday we're not going to be here. So, what? If you want to imagine what it's like to be dead, think about what the world was like before you were born. You weren't here, even though people you love were already around. You don't miss it. Everyone went around doing what they doing and saying what they say with no help (or hindrance) from us.\n\nLove life, but not so much that it gets in the way of the long view.
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http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/ltg/plane_japan.php :-)\n\nFrom what I've been told by people related to the airline industry it happens quite often (even as much as a few times a year).  I'm not sure I believe this, but it is quite common since someone caught this one on video!  But like a car, the frame of a plane is metal, so the lightning passes around the cabin.  I believe the largest danger is due to arcing damaging electrical equipment... but I don't even believe that is an extreme danger as much as a freak event.
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The best tool you can use is an AFDB.  So far nobody in the United States has been attacked by a Chinese aircraft while wearing an AFDB.\n\nGet yourself one and be safe.
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I have jumped static, freefall and AFF (accelerated Freefall) including one over the North Pole out of the back of a jet.\n\nThe flight up isn't too bad although, I wont lie to you, you will be scared ... the few seconds to the door are pretty nerve-wracking but once you are out (and past the sensory overload) you will be amazed.\n\nNot sure what type of skydive you are thinking about - for a first time jumper your choices are really a static line from pretty low (2000 ft ish) or a tandem (from c15,000 with a c50 sec free-fall). Both have their advantages but the freefall is probably what you want to feel.\n\nIf you freefall (most likely tandem for a first jump but you can do AFF)there is little or no sensation of falling but rather just being blasted in a strong (upward) wind. Pay the extra for a video of the jump - you wont regret it.\n\nIf you need any more info drop me a note.\n\n\nBlue Skies =8-)
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You're in a 750,000lb piece of metal that flys through the air.  Even if it is not that important, wouldnt you want to take every precaution to prevent any slight bit of chance of crashing?