CAPFlyer wrote:
Just remember, the European press did the same with the A380 and all its delays and it'll happen more with the A350 when it hits its teething problems here before too long (maybe...if it actually makes it out of flight testing...which seems to still be in doubt since they still haven't set a certification date goal...)
Remember the 777 "engine surge" panic?
I don't think there's been a design ever that doesn't have teething problems. Some more than others. I think today though, the first move is to ground the fleet instead of making reasoned decisions because everyone's afraid of the lawyers.
YEP! Douglas nearly lost the DC-1 prototype on it's first flight because of an auxillary airfoil mounted between the engine nacelles and the forward fuselage (most photos of that installation have 'vanished' over the years
) as much as because of wrongly installed carburetors on the engines.