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Originally Posted by widebody911
AIRSHOW-Dusk retreat and repair job for damaged A380 | Reuters
The stricken test plane limped out of Le Bourget with its damaged wingtip as dusk fell on Monday, taking off from a commercial runway unseen from industry chalets and well after most of the 140,000 visitors had left for the day, an airport source said.
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Holy crap. We have never, in all the years I've been doing this, been allowed to ferry an aircraft with damage that is anywhere near that expensive. Ever. We have fixed an awful lot of wing tips and leading edges over the years; pilots really like to hit light poles, buildings, and other airplanes.
Maybe there are "advantages" to being a state run manufacturer, damaging your aircraft at an air show hosted by that state, then going to the self-same state for a ferry permit. Incredible. We would never get away with this, especially anywhere in Europe.
More power to them, I guess. It will sure as hell be a lot easier to fix it in Toulouse, where they have all of the facilities, tools, equipment, and personnel.