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jetblaster
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Presently, we are simply awaiting another rudder disintegration and vertical fin failure on an A300/310 due to the stubborn Airbus insistence on visual or coin tap inspections on those aircraft.
Jetblaster
The AA jet going down in Canarsie was an eye opener for me. It just doesn't make SENSE to me to put non-metal in such a critical spot just to save weight.
The ONLY composite aircraft I have flown is a Diamond Katana. On hot days you had to look between the seat at this dot for a number to show through or something like that. If that number was showing it was to hot to fly the aircraft.
I didn't think the entire fuselage of the 787 is made of composites. I thought it was the front 1/3rd and the wings? I'm often wrong ...