On 06/02/2013 20:51, John Williamson wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:02:03 +0000, polygonum wrote:

No lithium ion.
Oh, like the ones that have grounded 787 Dreamliners the world over?
Also, IIRC, made by Yuasa.

Thought they had come to the conclusion that the batteries wern't
faulty but there was something wrong with the charger.

Once is an isolated problem, twice is worrying, three times is a design
fault.

That's what they used to say about ship engines, which are made in about
the same numbers as aircraft parts. How many 787s have had to land
because of this particular problem? A lot more than three...

If you want to worry some more about flying in one, it's the largest
non-metallic aircraft fuselage ever built, and life testing them is at
the stage that metal fatigue testing was at in the days of the Comet.

Reassuring, I'd say. Ain't going to suffer metal fatigue if it is all
plastic/carbon fibre. :-)

Who will be writing The Return of No Highway?

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Rod