ANA and JAL Ground 787 fleets
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ANA and JAL Ground 787 fleets
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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To me it seems like poor integration control of a vendor, likely compounded by ambiguous performance requirements, incorrect operating condition assumptions and schedule pressure.
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B.E.
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Not sure - don't know
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that airlines must demonstrate that batteries are safe before flights can resume.
United Airlines is currently the only US airline operating the 787."
Dik
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B.E.
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Dik
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Journalist for one of the big UK newspapers who said she was a nervous flyer and wouldn't be flying anymore because she was scared it was going to fall out the sky.
Even the "technical expert" they had on didn't actually tell anyone what has been going on. Just that these new planes rely on lithium-ion batteries like our phones and that they might explode.
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mind you Boeing did their share of gloating when A380 had it's troubles.
it'd be interesting to see if the battery over-heat protection had a wow switch inhibiting it ... "who'd charge these things on the ground ?"
mind you, i'd probably wait a few years before flying a '87 (so they get these teething problems out of the way) ...
A380 has matured just about enough to risk ...
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This is all based off what I have read which was written by journalists with possible agendas, but still.
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In the early 2000s I tangled with an Aero-News reporter on the V-22. He insisted it was dangerous widow maker. I pointed out similar/recent accidents/incidents with CH-47s, HH-53s, UH-60s, etc and got an "oh yeah"... may be it is on par with other new military helos" answer back. Now that the V-22 is maturing in service, it may never be an easy aircraft to maintain and fly... but will be generally safe and reliable for the military mission.
I seem to remember very serious developmental problems for Next-gen 737s [-500's and-on], early B-777s and all AB3xx's.
OH well, as someone once said: "never buy the "A" model of anything... especially if You are easily frightened/discouraged".
I heard another statistic [circa 1985]: 10% of all lear jets built [up to that time] had either been badly damaged or destroyed in accidents.
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An email from the US aerospace giant said it would continue to build the plane, but not deliver any until US safety officials gave their backing.
The Federal Aviation Administration has joined the Dreamliner investigation."
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English - French - Japanese - English.
No way anything could have gotten screwed up in the documentation in that chain.
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I'd guess motors with high peak starting current are driven by these batteries. It's difficult to perfectly spec and test conditions of motor peak currents, temp, altitude and win a contract needing where minimum weight for this battery is key. Hence my guess is these batteries pushed out too much spiky current and overheated due to altitude and cold wires (less resistance in wire) and less convection cooling and hence overheating. Just a guess mind you.
Technicians and Engineers who test the hardware at Boeing, Yuasa, etc are probably talking at coffee break saying things like "damn, it's probably that thing we saw....we told the management....they shouldn't have buried it....we got the contract though.....if we tell them we knew, we're screwed".
In my history I've been told to "Shut my damn mouth" about a software problem I mentioned to the customer and then thanked greatly two days later for "discovering that software problem so quickly at the customers ship CG-28 that we had time to fix it before they sailed". We all knew about the problem, we did nothing. Just like this problem I suspect.
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No, there have been news reports that there was no over-voltage from the charging system.
Which in reality means that there was no over-voltage detected by the charging system - within whatever limits of resolution and sample speed exist within its self-diagnostic. If in fact it is even measuring the actual output, rather than just reporting what it thinks it's supposed to be providing.
But there are all sorts of ways to screw up a battery charger.
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The battery was initially considered the likely source of problems on 787s owned by two Japanese airlines.
The world's entire fleet of 50 787s has been grounded while inspections are carried out.
Attention has now shifted to the electrical system that monitors battery voltage, charging and temperature."
Maybe the charging circuits... or how the batteries are used...
Dik
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The Transport Safety Board said in a report that the battery of the aircraft's auxiliary power unit was incorrectly connected to the main battery that overheated, although a protective valve would have prevented power from the APU from doing damage."
Dik
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The news from Airbus comes roughly a month after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded Boeing’s new Dreamliners after two mishaps involving the planes’ lithium-ion batteries. Investigators continue to look into what caused a battery fire on-board a 787 parked in Boston, and a smoking, melted battery during a 787 flight in Japan.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s most recent update says it appears dendritic crystalline growth occurred in one of the eight battery cells inside the 63 pound lithium-ion batteries Boeing installed in the Dreamliners. The dendrites likely pierced the cellophane-like separator between the cathode and anode, leading to a short that caused the battery to catch fire. Dendrites are a common problem within the power packed lithium-ion batteries, Li-ion battery expert Dr. K.M. Abraham told Wired last week.
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Dendrites growing inside the batteries.
Miswiring external to the batteries.
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