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This sounds fine. It's a catastrophic failure test. They push until it breaks, then it broke, and they were very close to their designed target (within 1%). If they had gone 1% past their designed target, they would have been upset, as they could have made the plane lighter. They were 1% short of design limit, they are upset because they'll have to add reinforcement.

Have you seen the wing failure test? I worked for the company that did these tests (they did them before I worked there), and they still talk about how upset the engineers were that it went over spec in strength.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0



The test on the Boeing 787 broke the load test machine - the composite wing was so strong, they literally couldn't break it.

And let's just put this on record, so people can really shut up about this: The Airbus A380 failed at 145% maximum wing load. That's a full 3.3% below the safety margin. They did not retest, but did subsequently reenforce (just as Boeing is here). The plane was put into service by the FAA.


It's always the same on HN. Some post about any news at Boeing, be they good, bad or whatever.

Someone has to chime in and drag Airbus through the dirt at least once. Let's at least mention one issue regarding Airbus. Is this a sales platform?

Really makes you wonder. Maybe it's just some weirdo mix of patriotism and capitalism.


This post didn't "drag Airbus through the dirt," it proved that there's no issue with the testing process at hand. Airbus did nothing wrong, nor did Boeing in this instance. Both "failed" to hit the target safety margin, took remediation steps, and did not retest. This is the system working as intended.

The fact that you see this as somehow anti-Airbus is evidence of a personal bias.


You missed the point completely.

The point is: There's nothing wrong with being off target in these failure tests, and it's normal what happened in both cases.




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