Great precedent.
When is the first famine expected at Everett, before or after the internecine massacre?

I have no idea what any of that means, but I like the sound of it.

I see. So your information is 4 to 5 years old. And it's on your hard disk.

Would also like to find out more about these anorexic wing box thingies.

Boeing expertise speeding up 787 partners Seattle Times 06/11/2008 Author: Dominic Gates (Copyright 2008) CHARLESTON, S.C. — The two factories planted here to build big Boeing 787 Dreamliner fuselage sections began as a disastrous experience in outsourcing. Their incomplete work played a large part...

There's no "fuckwit" option.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-Drea ... 1223437/M/

Originally delivered to American Airlines.

I don't wanna bash the B787, but Airbus needs to see they don't get into that aircraft's weight problem region (6%), as it does not only look bad, but puts enormous pressure on the design teams and may lead to "second order" problems like the wing box being anorexic.

Source?

Overrun Kalitta 747 suffered power loss but no engine damage Flight International 06/10/2008 Author: David Kaminski-Morrow Investigators in Brussels have found no evidence of engine damage on the Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200 freighter destroyed in a take-off overrun on 25 May, but confirm that one en...

I bet they do though, despite themselves, and I bet it's a disaster.

Indeed, it would have the potential for turning into A TOTAL AIR DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!

As long as they don't copy their outsourcing strategy...

Concur.

Why limit themselves to plagiarizing Boeing's wing spars? Why not also copy Boeing's wing panel (skins and stringers) design? And while they're at it, copy the 787 wing's overall aerodynamic shape? Wait, they've already done that....

Boeing Says Australia's Surveillance Plane Delayed (Update3) By Gopal Ratnam June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co., the second-largest U.S. defense contractor, said a $1 billion program to supply Australia with six surveillance planes is now delayed until 2010, after saying last week the planes would b...

Airbus increases maximum take-off weight on A350 XWB Flight International 06/09/2008 Author: Max Kingsley-Jones Airbus has confirmed to existing and potential A350 XWB customers that it has missed the weight target for the new twinjet by several tonnes and is increasing the aircraft's maximum take-...

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/aerospace/archives/140335.asp James Wallace on Aerospace At this week's IATA conference in Istanbul, Turkey, I spoke with a number of 787 customers about the delays. I have wrapped some of those interviews into my Aerospace Notebook that will be posted online in a ...

Dutch man injures posterior in mooning accident Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (06-03) 16:26 PDT UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) -- Utrecht police say a 21-year-old Dutch man is recovering after a "mooning" that went horribly wrong. A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in...

I wish the media wouldn't use the word 'occupied' so often when talking about large numbers of Germans.

The invasion of Poland was merely a political expedient. You see, they wanted to be invaded.

So when you were all drunk and nekkid in the woods that night, did you experience any, um... shrinkage?

Um, not wanting to sound like a nattering nabob of negativity, but is the site running inordinately slow today?

How could the Datsun F-10 not make the list?

(as a result of ingesting derbies and/or people from a structural failure and explosive decompression)

Those hats can be killer.

Cheap composites again!

Sorry Verbal, don't have my 737 model numbers memorized. High-bypass "runway scraper" engines as opposed to the old PW's. No winglets. That could have been a 737-300 or a 737-700 that hasn't been retrofitted with winglets yet. Early-build 737NG's had a main landing gear shimmy problem und...

I told you to come by when he's at work dammit! I guess now you will have to wait until next year.

He can wait that long. HB is accustomed to annual sex.

Was it a -300 or -700?

GM probably had the Saturn version in the pipeline before the dollar went south. They are doubtless selling each one at a loss. The MSRP on a vehicle has little to do with its cost of manufacturing. Rather, pricing is based on what the competition is selling their products at within that segment. Is...