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To: Elsewhere who wrote (119185)	6/10/2005 4:27:24 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793917

far better article than the Lifson one. This was two top WSJ reporters spending some time vs a columnist knocking off an essay. Hard to beat the WSJ on business news. The WaPo has made a deal with them to start carrying these type of articles. Really looks bad for Airbus. My biggest fear is the tail on the A300. They have had two come off in flight. One went down in Queens, the other made it back to Cuba. They are composite material. Could turn into another "Lockheed Electra" story if they lose another one. These kind of incidents always remind me of a wonderful James Stewart movie that is almost unknown, No Highway In the Sky. Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.