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Old Aug 7, 2009 | 4:43 pm
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
The impact to Airbus is, however, quite negative and will potentially affect their order book.
I doubt it. Go to http://dlsucks.blogspot.com, find my postings on the speed pitot problem, skip what I wrote & read all the articles that I've linked to.

The standard speed pitots on Airbus aircraft has been the Goodrich unit, which has now been ordered as the replacement for Thales units, both original & already replaced. If my memory is correct, 80% of the speed pitots as delivered from the factory have been the Goodrich units; Thales units were only installed at the customers' request and were on about 20% of the deliveries.

Both 767s & 777s are currently the target of safety directives, including a fuel icing problem that caused the loss of a BA 777 at Heathrow.
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