Airbus didn't have to pay a dime. An internal Boeing engineer wrote a 16???
page whistleblower report to the FAA with a lot of stuff that Boeing's top
brass wasn't all that pleased about.

Something about not testing the crashworthiness of the 787 to the same
standards that were required on the 737. A simple drop test of a fuselage
section, with the overhead bins full, with instrumented crash dummies,
dropped from 14 feet onto a concrete floor. And how you can see damage on
metal (dent) while the same damage on glass is generally internal and
invisible. And how metal elongates during a crash absorbing a tremendous
amount of the energy of the crash while glass tears and absorbs little. And
how metal is pretty much fireproof (it melts) while the epoxy in the glass
burns fairly hot and fast.

Anybody got a link to that article's website for Jay?

Jim

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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I wonder how much Airbus is paying this guy?
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