Mxsmanic wrote:
Owen writes:

I *highly* recommend reading the book "Airframe." It is a novel and it is
fiction, but it is remarkably well researched fiction about a large airplane
manufacturer and an accident investigation. One of Michael Crighton's best
works in my opinion.

It's a good book, although his fictional aircraft company, Norton, is
irritating in its obvious stand-in role for Boeing. Why not just name
a real manufacturer? But I guess that would be legally difficult.
Norton just makes me think of _The Honeymooners_.

Because it wasn't Boeing. He obviously pulled pieces out of several
manufacturers and completely fabricated other parts. If he was going
to set it in the context of an existing company he'd have had to work
much harder. Some of the stuff is pretty spurious...while Crichton
does a bit of research, a lot of it is really superficial. I prefer
Hailey.