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Old July 11th 05, 05:30 AM
Dave Stadt
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"Aluckyguess" wrote in message
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Mike Granby wrote:

Do any of you "slippery slope" gentlemen ever exceed the speed limit

on
the way to the airport?

One could argue that the speed limit is a lot more of an arbitrary

number


than an aircraft's gross weight figures.


I believe you would lose that argument. Many a gross weight is set by

the
marketing department so the plane performs to a competition beating
specification rather than some engineering requirement.



Wrong.


Yea, whatever.