:DI agree 100%. I would fly whatever airplane Delta buys that gives me the most time off and the most money.

It just boggles my mind that some guys would retire or quit before flying an Airbus product. Of course if there senior to me I would be happy to sign the retirement poster!:D

Why didn't you stay the extra 0.5 and finish up?

I guess you don't like the 777, 787 and every modern fighter and the C-17, either.

Exactly. This isn't about the home team or American jobs, this is about soft fascism at its finest. Boeing is not going away, with or without government welfare for foreign airlines using our own petro dollars to threaten us to subsidize them as they try and yank an entire industry out from under us.

Boeing is nads deep in the extremely bloated global police state "defense" industry as well. They aren't going anywhere. They aren't just too big to fail, they're too big to flush.

As for Ford/Chevy vs Honda/Toyota, which is more "American", a Ford made largely in Mexico, a Chevy made in Canada, or a Honda made in Indiana or a Toyota made in Kentucky?

Boeing is outsourcing tons of jobs to foreign countries, and Airbus is opening plants in the US.

Yet the shieks keep bribing us with our own money and we keep falling for it.

Its far beyond time to close the "Bank of Boeing".

i went summers. crammed 5 years into 3.5.

i wish i had taken 5 years to do 5. dammit. i was having too much fun then i get a email that the end was nearing and then they said goodbye.

then i went from a place with 12000 coeds to look at, vast majority were very attractive, to the crew room in the bottom of terminal B in IAH. depressing.

Yeah but now you can go back and troll the quad in uniform, for great success!

Only if he's wearing the double breasted horse blanket and hat.

Very different logic in the 787 verses the airbus. Also very different logic in FBW aircraft I flew. They are many types and implementations of FWB systems. Airbus designed their system to be cheap and easy to manufacturer. They could have included a rate motion feedback loop but they chose not to. They could have included back driven controls but they chose not to. The could have allowed pilot selectable modes but choose not to. Nothing wrong with what they did. They built it from the start to be the hamburger helper of the airline world. For the most part it's worked out for them. Best comment I heard from a several thousand hour A330 pilot when asked how it flew, "I don't know I have never flown it!" You will never hear a 777 pilot say that.
They do have great cockpits and it's a nice work space.

Chicks dig the hat.

http://guyism.com/wp-content/uploads...ihanna-777.jpg

I was an AA engineering student at UW in Seattle in the late 80's, Boeing's backyard. We got several presentations from Boeing alumni who were working on the program about how the 777 was the first airplane design proofed on computers and finite element analysis vs the old clay in the wind tunnel / material strength testing methods.
Also marked the end of overheads and the birth of Powerpoint!!!:eek: