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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by rootusrootus on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:26PM (#38894480)
What makes it the best? I've flown on it, and it seems nice enough, though it isn't the most comfortable airliner I've flown on. It's certainly the biggest! But there are only what, 250 or so that were put into service? It's hard to have a strong opinion about a plane in such a small niche.
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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by algesten on Saturday January 06, 2024 @04:47PM (#38895853)
For me the A380 is the most comfortable. I'm slightly scared of flying, and turbulence making the entire plane jump around makes it that much worse. I'm only speculating, but I think it might be the sheer bulk of the A380 making it the smoothest rides I've ever been on.
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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by danpalmer on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:00PM (#38896900)
Agreed, I fly long haul a lot and the A380 is the best. A350 is pretty good. 787 is fine, and 777 is crap.
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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by VBprogrammer on Saturday January 06, 2024 @04:54PM (#38895913)
Flying the A380 doesn't even feel like flying. Even the takeoff roll is sedate.
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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by CaptainZapp on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:03PM (#38894863)
If the engineering of this plane wouldn't have been that great disaster would have loomed.[0]

No question about that.

[0] https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-...

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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by brohee on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:15PM (#38896584)
That was an excellent read. Thanks for that.
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Re:FAA grounds 171 Boeing planes after mid-air blowout by asylteltine on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:14PM (#38897354)
It’s resistant to turbulence. It has the nicest cabins for business class and up. It has many entrances which is nice because then economy doesn’t need to walk past you in contempt. It also has more safety features than I can list which makes it very hard to crash even intentionally.
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