Airbus owns up to A380 wing cracks - Is EU safe to fly?

As we posted earlier this month on the Airbus wings' cracking up as being a suitable emblem for the EU, read here, the EADS announcement this evening was as follows:

Airbus blamed a recent series of A380 wing cracks on a combination of design and manufacturing flaws and said it had worked out a two-stage solution, while stressing the superjumbo was in the meantime safe to fly.

Following developments on the EU's second most important prestige project, the Airbus, is becoming as tortuous and fraught as following that of its first such, the Euro, one such most recent comment is here.

EU military plane gets EU Referendum blog somewhat worked up

The post from last Friday is here. Strong stuff! This blog has been worrying at the A400M military aircraft project for many years as my post last Wednesday, linked here, explained! It is good to see that Dr Richard North is now adding some anger to his usual insight and technical expertise on this subject!!

Airbus woes and EU Military

A man from Daimler has been appointed as new Chairman for EADS, the parent of Airbus, read here. Some quotes:

Cancellations and delays to already-placed orders are also becoming more commonplace.

Australian airline Qantas this week said it will defer delivery of four A380 superjumbos as it battles the deepening crisis gripping the aviation sector.... EADS's other major headache in 2009 will be the A400M, its military-transport-aircraft program. The aircraft is now two years behind schedule and EADS has yet to give a date for its first flight. As I blogged on Ironies some six years ago on 29th April 2003, linked here, and at later dates, the entire Airbus project is critical to the EU federalist project, as its military component the A400M (from which commitment it is now reported Bankrupt Britain is trying to withdraw) formed the basis of much of the military cooperation which now makes possible the of the potential for internal repression within the enlarged EU, as detailed in the original and linked Ironies' post.

Insider dealing at the Airbus parent.

The report in today's IHT, linked here, on a leaked document from Autorité des Marchés Financiers, or AMF, against 17 individuals who it says reaped a combined €20 million, or $31.4 million, in profits while having access to insider information should be read in full for it also contains criticism of the two largest corporate shareholders who each sold off some 7.5 per cent of their shareholdings. The whole rotten EU construction is supported by European controlled big businesses who must be held as accountable as Microsoft if there is the be the slightest chance of the EU continuing to be tolerated in the disastrous event of the Lisbon Treaty being fully ratified. The Airbus is one of the corrupt EU flagship projects, if it is seen to be publicly subsidised for the occasional improper benefit of the French Corporate giants Lagardère and the German carmaker Daimler then there will be even less reason for individuals to suffer the growing regulation and economic degradation caused by the activities of the bureaucratic monstrosity that is the EU. Surely the elected representatives of the people in one of Europe's parliaments is sufficiently attuned to reality to kill off this Lisbon Treaty or are they all well and truly BOUGHT? Every day, as recorded on this blog, the evidence builds that the EU is Europe's and possibly the world's worst enemy. In good times a resigned shrug might be understandable, but today with a looming world food crisis, energy price spiral, credit crunch and house price collapse each EU member state needs one person properly in charge and accountable, poor Britain only has Gordon Brown so they seem worse placed than most! Instead the EU looks set for months of power struggles as the three Presidents battle for their positions in the pecking order, only by kicking out the Lisbon Treaty can such a farce be avoided. More of this appeared on Euractiv yesterday, linked here, titled "The Lisbon Treaty: Playing Presidential poker?"