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EURO LEADERS CLAIM LEAD OVER USA!
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| 1/18/05
| AFP
Posted on 01/18/2005 7:23:13 AM PST by highimpact
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To: JLS
Southwest Airlines seems to be doing just fine with their fleet of 737s.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:37:28 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: highimpact
Airbus A380, another failure to follow the French Concord SST.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:37:34 AM PST
by
Wiz
To: highimpact
With the sales of the 7E7 not going so well, they may have to. The basic research has already been done and the airplane they came up with (The Blended Wing concept) not only would be cheaper to produce but safer to fly and compatible with existing airport facilities. Check this out:
Plus, the Blended Wing is way cool, IMHO. ;-)
To: highimpact
I've never figured out how the massive Airbus subsidies from European governments are allowable under WTO regulations. Anytime the U.S. government tries to slip in a subsidy for our industry, the Europeans scream and have it stopped and we're fined.
To: highimpact
I've never figured out how the massive Airbus subsidies from European governments are allowable under WTO regulations. Anytime the U.S. government tries to slip in a subsidy for our industry, the Europeans scream and have it stopped and we're fined.
To: highimpact
ROFLMAO
relatively new...what does the above mean?
[not a private post, sure there are others baffled]
Also, can anyone enlighten me on ROFL? Suspect it's not nice...
To: highimpact
MOHAMMAD #1 (reading newspaper): Allah be praised! Look at this! They call it the A380 superjumbo!
MOHAMMAD #2 (looking up from checking MANPAD): Hey, that will be such an easy target!
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:39:21 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(What do they do in the mosque on days when the guys in the front row have gas?)
To: highimpact
The market for a plane that can carry 850 people is not that big... Boeing already investigated this option and chose a different path.
To: Porterville
"What a bunch of sour grapes."
Nope. A plane this big is going to turn out to be very expensive to fly. Scaling up to reduce passenger prices only goes so far, but the fuel costs increase without limit as aircraft size increases.
Airbus just might have jumped the shark on this one.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:40:04 AM PST
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Daus
It will be perfect for HAJJIs!.......
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:41:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you FReep!........)
To: highimpact
A boondoggle if I ever saw one. IMO this is beyond ridiculous. All previous postings regarding this have enumerated the amplification of incidental problems associated with travel on the behemoth. Toilets, baggage, loading time, unloading time. gate accomodations, shoulder fired rockets, ect., ect.
Besides which these morons have the U.S Goverment and the private Corporation Boeing confused. To their way of thinking, it's natural for a government to be involved in Free enterprise.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:41:22 AM PST
by
Banjoguy
(The party of Democrats is not democratic.)
To: X-Servative
Just lacks the Leonardo De Crappio hood ornament.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:41:36 AM PST
by
Dead Dog
To: highimpact
Like high schools, airplanes are not always BETTER if they are BIGGER.....yeah, just what I'd want to do....spend a few hours crammed in a flying metal tube with 838 other people!....NOT!
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:41:41 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Tax cuts, Tax reform, social security reform, Supreme Court, etc.....the next 4 years.....)
To: highimpact
Ditto, Bigger is not always better, particularly today. In fact many leading technology developments are focused on the smallest, including integrated chip circuits, medical techniques, and nano technology.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:41:42 AM PST
by
cheme
To: ddantas
850 people crammed into a box. 850 smelly Frenchies and and loud Germans.
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:42:14 AM PST
by
marty60
To: Mike Darancette
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:42:55 AM PST
by
marty60
To: jimbo123
"Titanic or Hingenberg...."
Arian 5
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:44:31 AM PST
by
Dead Dog
To: highimpact
As horrible as it sounds, Al Qaeda is likely looking at this as 840 infidels in a $280M flying missile. Kill the program and AQ gets the "bonus" impact of the EU wasting $14Bn in development costs.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:44:58 AM PST
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: bmwcyle
Wait until on of these planes(God Forbid) drops out of the sky.
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Just a bigger target.
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posted on
01/18/2005 7:45:09 AM PST
by
wtc911
("I would like at least to know his name.")
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