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Old 05-13-2011 | 09:35 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
To his credit, the bus does wiggle a lot more than the 737 or 757. I always assumed it had to do with some sort of relaxed stability to save more fuel.
The interior panels sure do. I assumed it was the Europeans fascination with all things plastic and lack of fasteners to hold the mess together.

My last tour of duty in a EADS aircraft left me impressed with how they figured out were structure (weight) was needed and where it was not.

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