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FAA Is Doing Nothing About Continued Boeing Dreamliner Battery Failures
In 2013, the troubled Boeing 787 Dreamliner was grounded for nearly four months because the plane's lithium-ion batteries caught fire. It's had at least three more cell failures since the plane was allowed to resume flying. While the Federal Aviation Administration dismisses these new failures, the fact that these battery malfunctions continue to happen is a big deal. No other lithium-ion battery in service shows failure rates this high. Failures in these batteries typically come at a… (www.gizmodo.in) Altro...
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Try the hundreds of batteries on every flight in the cabin and on the flight deck :0
If the battery mfgs could make a product that had 50% the weight and 10000% the energy density of todays batteries everybody would be using it. If that same battery was made of napalm everybody would STILL use it. And every reporter would be up-in-arms over every fire involving said batteries. When you make some from a chemical that is highly reactive (in this case lithium, an element) you are going to get reactions just as if you try make a small fire with something that is highly inflammable you are going to get the occasional bonfire (and sometimes a funeral pyre). Remember all the laptop and cellphone battery fires? Same issue on a smaller scale, but note every solution 'scales.' People seem to think it's all about the engineering, but sometimes it's all about the chemistry - a little bit of pure U-238 isn't bad, but put 100kg into a ball and you've something entirely different. And let us not forget that most 'journalists' don't take any classes from the Dept of Natural Sciences and probably didn't take any classes from the Philosophy dept either. But that's a rant for another day.
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Who cares if lithium ion batteries still burn in Boeing 787s?
Halloween surprise? Lithium ion batteries continue to burn under the floors of 787s (if only rarely) but fear not, all is well even if no one in the maker or regulator knows why nor how to stop it happening.
That’s the message from US airline industry writer Christine Negroni in this article.
And it’s not the incidents that are arguably of greatest concern considering the logic behind the official responses that Ms Negroni reports, since the chances of an uncontained fire in a 787 seem smaller than Sydney taxi turning up in time for you to catch a flight on a rainy day.
http://www.christinenegroni.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/dont-be-spooked-if-787-battery-box-is.html
Who cares if lithium ion batteries still burn in Boeing 787s?
Halloween surprise? Lithium ion batteries continue to burn under the floors of 787s (if only rarely) but fear not, all is well even if no one in the maker or regulator knows why nor how to stop it happening.
That’s the message from US airline industry writer Christine Negroni in this article.
And it’s not the incidents that are arguably of greatest concern considering the logic behind the official responses that Ms Negroni reports, since the chances of an uncontained fire in a 787 seem smaller than Sydney taxi turning up in time for you to catch a flight on a rainy day.
http://www.christinenegroni.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/dont-be-spooked-if-787-battery-box-is.html
https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/airworthiness_directives/