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To: combjelly who wrote (487903)	6/14/2009 11:40:25 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) of 1575805

On one of my first airline flights, I happened to sit next to a older airline pilot deadheading to pick up a plane. We started a conversation, and I mentioned my dad used to navigate DC-3's in WW II. He started talking about the DC-3, and how it was a very strong airliner that could actually do some not to stressful aerobatics. He told me that modern airliners weren't able to take those kind of stresses, and if you tried anything like what a DC-3 could do, the wings would probably rip off! He said modern airliners were designed for the stresses of taking off, landing, maybe dropping into a low pressure area and recovering, and that was it. What they were designed to do was fly straight and level with as many passengers as possible, and when full were severely overloaded for any kind of stressful flying. He said the pilot's job was to keep it smooth, for the passengers, but also to keep the plane together.

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