"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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pacplyer wrote:

As well, the lack of a robust wheel-well area that could not allow for
tire fragments at 200mph seems like another pioneering shortfall just
like square windows on a pressurized fuselage. My comments were not
meant to denigrate either spectacular flying machine, just to point
out that these were the first of their kind out of the gate, and that
without good factory/national support the continued operation of a
sole example seems risky at best. (but I too would like to see it fly
again.)

Err yes, and building lavatories that leak and cause structural
corrosion is 747s is a **** (sic) poor design feature as well. Your
point being?


737 fuel tanks and vapour come to mind, too.....

Ali