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Five Die in Collapse of Paris Airport Terminal
CNN ^
| May 23, 2004
Posted on 05/23/2004 8:05:08 AM PDT by nuconvert
Edited on 05/23/2004 8:06:45 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:05:09 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:07:54 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: nuconvert
That design looks flawed to begin with. Too much/less arch? Looks too wide. I'm sure they engineered it but it still looks wrong. I get rid of hoses that flat because they always collapse./ Putting away my hindsight vision monitor.
To: nuconvert
French engineering at its best...
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:21:24 AM PDT
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: nuconvert
I hate Charles de Gaulle airport. I go to Poland twice a year (Delta and partner Air France) and have to change planes (and terminals) at CDG. It is always a nightmare. I've been in 2E. The whole thing is like a Third World experience.
To: RGSpincich
"
That design looks flawed to begin with."Sure looks that way. There's absolutely no lateral bracing to support a sprung arch like that. Everything is supported by stressing the sides in bending.
To: nuconvert
"One airport director had called Terminal 2E, with its arched roof and sleek design, the "pride of the airport."
The terminal was inaugurated June 25,(2003) nearly a month behind schedule because of construction problems."
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:26:35 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:33:03 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: AdmSmith
(let's try that again)
CDG Airport pong
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:34:15 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
To: Malesherbes
I hate Charles de Gaulle airport. So do I. And I've only changed planes there one trip, both ways. Rude workers, nothing was open, and the bare concrete
was simply - damp.
To: nuconvert
In a related story, Michael Moore was seen on the terminal shortly before it's collaps while returning from Cannes.
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:36:54 AM PDT
by
tbeatty
(On ANWR: "Why should I care about a Caribou I'm never gonna eat?")
To: chilepepper
French engineering at its best... Oh, come now. Fresnel, Eiffel, ...
Could have been the government procurement of materials, the stuff made in the month of August, or it was the only source for kickbacks
since Saddam and the "Oil for Food" money was gone.
To: Calvin Locke
I hate Charles de Gaulle airport.
So do I. And I've only changed planes there one trip, both ways. Rude workers, nothing was open, and the bare concrete was simply - damp.
Make that three of us. The place is completely depressing and smells like urine (seriously).
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:42:01 AM PDT
by
zencat
(See my profile for MAGNETIC Bush/Cheney '04 bumper stickers!)
To: Malesherbes
DeGaulle airport should be renameed "We Surrender" Airport.
To: chilepepper
Keep in mind....Engineers dont make mistakes...They make revisions!.....and as for French engineering...Im guessing they couldnt pour p*ss out of a boot if the directions were on the heel...Its the French mindset...
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:56:10 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
To: nuconvert
I guess the French engineeres didn't use enough elmer's glue on that structure.
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posted on
05/23/2004 8:57:08 AM PDT
by
Arpege92
(There are no more political simpletons in the world today other than European Leftist -Yossi Halevi)
To: sheik yerbouty
Paris' Capitulation Disasters Granted Airport collapsulates.
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posted on
05/23/2004 9:01:53 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Decorate rooms and furniture with your sleeping friend's carcasses. -Gothic car sticker)
To: nuconvert
Leave it to the french to be the first to create "self inflicted" terrorism. Even their buildings surrender.
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posted on
05/23/2004 9:05:20 AM PDT
by
dc-zoo
To: Professional Engineer; SAMWolf; lodwick; Servant of the 9; null and void; Cuttnhorse
Ping to thread about French Airport arch collapse.
Check out teh article, then look at the image in post #2.
Something isn't right with that arch, it doesn't seem to have enough support to it to make it a sane design.
Much like the French Aircraft carrier..
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posted on
05/23/2004 9:07:51 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Decorate rooms and furniture with your sleeping friend's carcasses. -Gothic car sticker)
To: zencat
I'll be number four.
Urine smell? Check.
Rude workers? Check.
I'll add, I didn't much like the endless trail of motorized habitrails one must ride to get to the gate, only to sit in those horrid plastic chairs, like some half-assed, third-world bus station.
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posted on
05/23/2004 9:08:25 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(They could choose between shame and war: Some chose shame, but got war anyway.)
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