To: phantomworker
The jet will not look radically new on the outside, but beneath the just-dried paint lies a structure 50 percent made up of carbon composite materials and another 15 percent titanium, making the plane much lighter and fuel efficient than existing jetliners of the same size. Great! We can all look forward to lower ticket prices for the 787, right?
4 posted on
07/08/2007 12:30:14 PM PDT by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: TLI
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Lower than they would have been without the composites. I don't have a link to Ralph Nader's Anti-Capitalist web site but a quick Google should find it.
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To: TLI
Probably not, but it will be a much more enjoyable ride.
12 posted on
07/08/2007 12:41:57 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: TLI
Great! We can all look forward to lower ticket prices for the 787, right? Not the 787 in particular, but in airlines in general that purchase 787s. After all, airfare is competitive.
21 posted on
07/08/2007 2:23:58 PM PDT by
burzum
(None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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