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Rolls Royce A380 Engine Parts Made in China?

By nostalgiphile in nostalgiphile's Diary
Wed Nov 17, 2010 at 10:32:39 PM EST
Tags: poopypeanutz, AIRBUS A380, China, YFI (all tags)

As you know, these damned things spout oil like your mama's George Forman grill, but is it true the mystery malfunctioning parts were manufactured in China? RR says

"(T)he failure was confined to a specific component in the turbine area of the engine," the company said in a statement. "This caused an oil fire, which led to the release of the intermediate pressure turbine disc.

In the TURBINE AREA? WTF! Thousands and thousands of lives could hang the balance. We the PEOPLE (= CONSUMERS) demand explicit answers! How much of the engine is built with cheap Chinese parts? Tell us, or we boycott!

Wow...I have a bad case of diarrhea. Must've been those peanuts I ate last night.

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Rolls Royce A380 Engine Parts Made in China? | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

they make the best stuff in china (none / 1) (#1)
by nateo on Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 12:21:43 AM EST

like ipads. and england hasn't been able to manufacture shit since wwii. lets be honest: the more material in that engine that doesn't come from the uk, the safer it probably is.

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isn't teh wwii also manufactured in China?$ by mirko, 11/18/2010 04:13:19 AM EST (3.00 / 4)

Manchuria by Del Griffith, 11/18/2010 11:28:10 AM EST (none / 0)

ipads...yah, YFI by nostalgiphile, 11/18/2010 06:35:48 AM EST (none / 0)

I didn't see a reference to China... (none / 0) (#4)
by claes on Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 06:49:55 AM EST

in the articles, except that RR canceled a presentation at a trade show. Did I miss something, or is this a guess?

Not sure about the A380. 4 engines = good, bigger than god meant for things that fly = bad.

hehe (none / 0) (#5)
by lostincali on Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 08:09:15 AM EST

"led to the release of the intermediate pressure turbine disc"

i love how they try to hide the image of super hot, fast-spinning metal blowing out of the engine in all radial directions as "the release". jesus h christ, they're lucky almost nobody knows how a jet engine works.

"The least busy day [at McDonalds] is Monday, and then sales increase throughout the week, I guess as enthusiasm for life dwindles."

I worked with a guy who had... by claes, 11/18/2010 08:34:29 AM EST (none / 0)
that would be you, actually by GhostOfTiber, 11/18/2010 09:37:40 AM EST (none / 0)

SO TO RECAP by lostincali, 11/18/2010 10:16:47 PM EST (none / 1)

Photos do not bear out your speculation by GhostOfTiber, 11/19/2010 09:47:53 AM EST (none / 0)

They have a picture on the intertoobs; by Pentashagon, 11/18/2010 01:45:48 PM EST (none / 0)

almost forgot--image of day (none / 0) (#8)
by nostalgiphile on Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 10:44:10 AM EST

inflation (obvious trane troll)

"Depending on your perspective you are an optimist or a pessimist[,] and a hopeless one too." --trhurler

She doesn't look inflated to me. by Vampire Zombie Abu Musab al Zarqawi, 11/18/2010 01:55:38 PM EST (none / 0)

Boycott? (none / 0) (#14)
by Peahippo on Fri Nov 19, 2010 at 12:58:59 PM EST

Are you serious? You can't boycott. You won't stop flying. And when you fly, you don't get to choose the plane. If you refuse to fly on a certain type of plane, the plane (and your ticketed space) will fly away on schedule, leaving you there in the terminal, poorer, and looking like a pure fucking dork.

You apes think you have consumer power. You have nothing.

You Get The Plane Model by limpdawg, 11/19/2010 02:57:37 PM EST (none / 0)

Rolls Royce A380 Engine Parts Made in China? | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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