A380 Retrofit: A Painful Learning Process

Credit: Airbus
If there is an upside to the A380's wing-component cracking saga, it may be that it should enable Airbus to avoid an embarrassing misstep on its next big development program, the A350. Airbus has scrutinized the design process for the twin-widebody in light of lessons learned in determining why wing...

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