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That A380 sure is butt-ash ugly. The 747 looks svelte by comparison, and the 7E7 (although in a different size class) is real nice looking. Looks don't matter that much I guess, but I'd hate to dump that much money into an ugly plane though. Airbus still has to hope it's test program goes OK, I know they've had problems in the past (such as with fly-by-wire, etc). One crash during flight testing, uh-huh-huh, I can tell you what's gonna happen to the A380 program! Has one even flown yet?
One problem I do have with the 7E7 is that it's a "plastic" airplane, that kinda bothers me, reminds me of the Comet back in the 50's, I hope a big plastic airplane can take all the pressurizations (I know I know, it's not entirely correct to call it plastic, but still . REAL airplanes are made out of aluminum!
Gilly
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