[omnivore]

That's great, powdered instant pyramid. Just dump out of packet onto ground, scrape the sides flat, letting the pile adjust to its natural angle of repose, and when it rains, the powder hardens in place.

Seriously, if the French have spent 8 years computer-modeling this, why didn't they spend some of that computer power getting the weight and balance right on the recent Airbus designs?

[Thumper1960]

I'm no aeronautical engineer. Perhaps it's just a case of trying to prove le Americains and Boeing to be not as good as le French.

Another great French invention proven inadequate? As in the Maginot Line and French wine?