On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:00:32 +0000 (UTC)
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

WhoGivesAFig? wrote in newsWVHi.40$Wv3.34
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
WhoGivesAFig? wrote in
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C J Campbell wrote:
On 2007-09-18 07:06:06 -0700, WhoGivesAFig?
said:

This could be huge

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABP...2003889769.pdf
Hmmm. A retired employee who worked for Boeing for 46 years claims
to
know more than the FAA and Boeing about how planes should be crash
tested. He concludes that composites are not as crashworthy as
metal,
but does not back his assertions up with any hard data.

His complaint is that composite materials are stronger in some
directions than they are in others, that cracking is less visible,
and that composites are more subject to fire and more vulnerable to
lightning. He points out that g levels in a crash are unlikely to
be
uniform all along a composite structure. All of this is true, but
he
seems to be alleging some sort of Boeing coverup of these facts. He
discounts actual experience with other composite aircraft, saying
that either they are not airliners subjected to the stress and
number
of flights that airliners get, or that the numbers of such
composite
aircraft are too few to be statistically significant.

Of course, his report will make great fodder for trial lawyers when
the first 787 crashes, no matter what the actual cause of death of
the passengers is. Weldon seems to be down at the site trying to
tell
people how to crash test an airplane even though he no longer works
there. No doubt his experience is valuable, but he cannot possibly
be
aware of everything that Boeing is doing to mitigate these problems
and Boeing is certainly not going to give corporate secrets to
former
employees.

He claims to know more than Boeing he may or may not. 46
years is a lot of experience. Does he know more than the
FAA? My dog knows more than the FAA about aviation.


I think I just found a new pet.


Bertie


You can have him. He is a fat worthless
mutt. Just like a Government employee



I meant you fjukkwit!

Fetch!


Bertie

Every Tom Dick and Hairy *knows* that carpon fibre is *much* more g-resistant than 4041 aluminium tubes.

Sheesh.

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