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...and now I will always want to fly on an Airbus instead. Reminds me of the joke: > At a recent real-time Java conference, the participants were given an aw
by blueskin_ 12y ago
...and now I will always want to fly on an Airbus instead.
Reminds me of the joke:
> At a recent real-time Java conference, the participants were given an awkward question to answer:
> "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark immediately?"
> Among the forest of raised hands only one man sat motionless. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite content to stay aboard. With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even taxi as far as the runway, let alone take off.
- enjoy-your-stay 12y ago>...and now I will always want to fly on an Airbus instead. Reminds me of a joke I was once told by a QA consultant: His colleague was on his way to deliver a revision of software which had been extensively tested and many serious bugs discovered and fixed. The software was so important that it was to be delivered in person by the consultant on a laptop to the customer. On the walkway to the plane, he happened to glance up and see the aeroplane he was about to board was an Airbus. In fact the very revision that had the same software he'd just been testing and had found to be full of bugs. Oh no. Suddenly getting very cold feet and desperately thinking of a way not to get on the plane he takes a drastic step and deliberately drops and destroys the laptop with the software he was going to deliver. Happy now he returns to the office and declares 'well, that's a shame - but I think I'll take the train next time' - was told to me as a true story, and you never know...
- Artemis2 12y agoI've heard from an airline pilot that Airbuses are a lot more driven by the central computer, while in Boeing planes, the pilot has more freedom.