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echo: barktopus
to: Tony Ingenoso
from: Don Hills
date: 2005-02-02 11:38:12
subject: Re: A380 Stress Margins

From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article , "Tony Ingenoso"
 wrote:
>If you want to save fuel, you'll ignore orthodox airliner design
>and revisit what Northrup was working on in the 1930's.
>
>The only reason airliners are as they are today is the
>psychological desire for windows.

No, it's the psychological desire to not throw up when the plane turns. (If
you're not sitting near the roll centre it can be quite uncomfortable.)

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