Joe Curry wrote:
>
> Is it true that the Lucas Fuse Box on the Airbus Planes holds 4 fuses
> and 2 of them are spares? 8^)
Nah, it's a big plane, so there are 3 working and one spare.... <g>
Truthfully, there was a guy on the old FIDO brit_car echo from the St.
Louis area, and the McDonnell-Douglas engineers there told him that
Lucas Aerospace had about the same reputation in the aircraft industry
as Lucas Automotive has in auto industry....
My only experience with them apart from cars is Lucas Engineering, which
provides engineering consulting to manufacturers. A former employer of
mine let them come in and essentially run the entire operation in the
production of a new bus model... which then became almost a year late
getting to production, probably ended up pricing out $100,000 over
budget, and will take many, many years to amortize the tooling--the
tooling alone for just the front bumper was purported to cost $900,000.
Cheers.
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