From: "Phil Payne" 

"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
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> I don't see the A380 being profitable for a long long time now, if ever.
> EADS is going to give a ton of money back those airlines that are not
going
> to see the airplanes for a very long time after promised delivery dates.
>
> I think this combined with what I think is a weak business model is really
> going to hurt.

I have to say this time I agree.  And it's a sad planning failure when a
wiring harness redesign even CAN impact a product plan like this.

(Having redesigned a wiring harness just two weeks ago ...)

I don't know how Airbus do it, but Boeing have a marvellous system that
logs every single piece of wire on the aircraft in a DB2 database.  Source,
sink, route, gauge, colour, etc.  They started doing it over twenty years
ago.  I was responsible for support and development of the DB2 component of
Morino's MICS system and Boeing were our hosts and test site.  Incredible
system. One of the most important contributors to making a 747 do what it
does.

Even as long ago as ten years, Lufthansa were piloting a wearable PC.  This
thing was no slouch - a Pentium with 60GB and a wearable screen poised
above the right eye, so the technician could actually view Boeing's
original database for the specific aircraft he was walking about in.  If he
made a change, the system would update Boeing's source database.  They had
a guy wearing it on the IBM stand at CeBIT a few years back and I had a
play with it.  Phenomenal system.  Batteries that lasted a whole shift as
well.  The mouse was a pad worn on the middle finger of either hand and
stroked inside the palm with the thumb.

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