From: Mycelium on
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:51:43 -0800 (PST), "keithw86(a)gmail.com"
<keithw86(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 10, 11:20�am, Phil Hobbs
><pcdhSpamMeSensel...(a)electrooptical.net> wrote:
>> On 2/9/2010 11:18 PM, Mycelium wrote:
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>> > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:23:22 -0800 (PST), Michael<mrdarr...(a)gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> On Feb 5, 8:09 pm, Mycelium
>> >> <mycel...(a)thematrixattheendofthemushroomstem.org> �wrote:
>> >>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:46:18 GMT, n...(a)puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote:
>> >>>> Sylvia Else<syl...(a)not.at.this.address> �wrote:
>>
>> >>>>> On 3/02/2010 5:44 AM, Nico Coesel wrote:
>> >>>>>> Vladimir Vassilevsky<nos...(a)nowhere.com> � �wrote:
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>> >>>>>>>http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG
>>
>> >>>>>>> This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies
>> >>>>>> � � � � � � � � � � � � � � ^^^^^^
>> >>>>>> You shouldn't be flying in a French airplane. I avoid flying with an
>> >>>>>> Airbus if I can.
>>
>> >>>>> Airbuses have been very safe. Just because there was a crash of one a
>> >>>>> while back doesn't make them unsafe.
>>
>> >>>> Its not just about safety. Airbus airplanes make a crappy impression.
>> >>>> Very little space for hand luggage. Small toilets. Everthing looks
>> >>>> like it is going to fall apart from just looking at it.
>>
>> >>> � Boeings are the Chevrolets (or Cadillacs), Airbuses are Fords.
>>
>> >> We flew through a typhoon on the way to Manila from Mindanao on an
>> >> Airbus (A319 I think). �I was very impressed that the wings managed to
>> >> stay attached to the aircraft.
>>
>> >> Michael
>>
>> > � �Boeing now owns McDonnell Douglas as well, and IIRC, it was their craft
>> > that were made into the Hurricane trekkers
>>
>> Lockheed WC130s. �http://www.hurricanehunters.com/
>
>NOAA uses Lockheed P3 Orions, and a Gulfstream G-IV (for AlBore, no
>doubt ;).
>
>http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/grounders/hurricanehunters.html
>


Well, as long as Boeing and McDD have been around, I would think their
wings would hold up as well.