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To: E. Charters who wrote (88990)	8/20/2002 9:12:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116798

<<As the plane is being built the chief engineer gets Andy the plant sweeper to look it over and make suggestions.>> Reminds me of a story told me by my father. A giant plane company was bringing out an experimental Mach 3 fighter which, if successful, they would then sell to the Air Force. Problem was that after 8 prototypes & the resulting deaths of 8 test pilots & thousands of hours of re-redesign the wings still came off at the apex of a high speed dive. At last as they were getting ready to begin building the latest generation prototype the janitor put in his two cents worth to an engineer leaving the john. Seems the engineer was talking to himself(in near madness) & scratching his head saying "How do I keep the wings on, How do I keep the wings on"? The Janitor answered saying, "Just drill holes along the line where the wings always come off." Of course the engineer says "That might just work, we'll try it, how did you; a janitor; know this bit of supersonic engineering?" To which the janitor answered, "Been working here 30 years and I have yet to see the toilet paper rip down the perforation".