Re: A380 toilets (Reuters)
 

On Jan 29, 6:47 am, "Takin & Kanoknuan" <takin&kanokn...@stuck-in-a-
wheelchair.org> wrote:
> "Deckard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > Guess what lurks in the bowels of an A380
> > by Tim Hepher
>
> > Spoons and socks may not be the first objects that spring to mind when
> > gazing at the world's largest airliner, but deep inside an Airbus
> > factory, technicians kill time by stuffing them down the toilet.
>
> > Flushing away strange objects is among the unglamorous tasks carried
> > out on a giant 3-storey rig designed to test the vacuum-toilet system
> > on an A380 superjumbo. While the plane's electrical wiring problems
> > occupy the attention of would-be buyers and the world's media,
> > plumbers are perfecting the A380's 1,000 metres (3,280 ft) of waste
> > and water pipes.
>
> > Airlines know from experience that many passengers are careless about
> > what they drop down the lavatory -- and blockages on a $300 million
> > (153 million pound) airliner could spell a public relations disaster.
> > "The toilets are very important to airlines; Some people put anything
> > down there: towels, spoons, glasses, diapers. They behave as if they
> > were at home," said Frank Dohrmann, head of design support and cabin
> > testing at Airbus's main German plant.
>
> > "If the temperature inside an aircraft varies 0.5 degrees (centigrade)
> > it is no big deal. But if the toilets get jammed every passenger will
> > remember it for years," he said.
> > One airline insisted that Airbus test the toilet by shoving pairs of
> > socks down the system to check it wouldn't block.
>
> > To handle the waste produced by up to 800 passengers, Airbus designed
> > plumbing capable of pumping sewage along the 60-metre length of an
> > A380 in about two seconds, Dohrmann told journalists on Friday. That
> > equates to more than 100-kph (60-mph), which could be a sanitary speed
> > record (...)**Rumour has it that some of the posters on this group have asked Airbus to
> run more tests on the sewage system on the A380 by having the plane empty a
> full tank of sewage in mid-air whilst it flys over the Abelardo Trivino
> household in Khorat.
>
> :-)
>
> --
> "Yep, I use to fuck some of them [ladyboys] in their arse from time to
> time." - the Khorat Retard
>
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> > complete story at:
> >http://today.reuters.com/stocks/Quot....aspx?view=CN&...
> > -
> > The superjumbo was at the new airport a few weeks ago. It seems that
> > the Germans have already taken the toilets' problem of Suvanabhumi
> > into account.
>
> > :-)
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Hi Takin, I miss you so much. Please visit Kanoknuan again. My
husband, Carlos Trivino Garcia Abelardo, don't know how to give good
sex like you.

Your friend,
Kanoknuan, with mole on left nipple. ;-)

Your friend