Busted wing

Airbus was conducting tests on the wings of the mighty A380 when the wing cracked and was destroyed. The testing is accomplished with the wing being bent upwards, way beyond its limitations until it snaps.

The cracking occured when the wing was bent 7.4 metres out of the original travel of the wing during normal turbulence. This is said to be completely normal for the wing to burst like this under such testing. The likeliness that this aircraft will ever have to face that type of weather that makes the wing travel out of its standard in that way is like zero.

All aircraft companies have to carry out such tests to find the limits of the material they build the aircraft of. And also to find out if the computers were right in their calculations on the aicraft.

The Airbus A380

is currently touring the world where Airbus engineers and pilots are testing the aircrafts behavior in different environments. About a month ago Airbus did a series of high altitude testing flying the A380 from Tolouse, the base of Airbus in France to Medellin, Colombia which is located in a small valley at about 7000 ft. (2 133 m). Right now the Airbus is visiting the cold and harsh climate of Canada and then it heads further east to visit Asian Aerospace `06 in Singapore.

"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

- Michael Sinz