787 Story by Dan Rather

On 19 Sep, 16:17, Jay Honeck wrote:
On Sep 19, 10:09 am, FredGarvinMaleProstitute

wrote:
NEW YORK - Boeing Co's (BA) new carbon-composite 787
Dreamliner plane may turn out to be unsafe and could lead to
more deaths in crashes, according to a report by veteran
journalist Dan Rather to be broadcast in the United States
on Tuesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297248,00.html

Oooooo.... This is gonna get ugly.

Interesting. Plastic is not necessarily less robust than
aluminium. Racing cars for example are much safer
now that they are made from Carbon fiber than they
ever were when they were mostly made from aluminiun.

I though suspect that the safety improvement may have largely
come as a consequence of needing to make
the car stiffer for performance reasons. Modern F1 cars are
unbelievably robust. Toxic fumes in the event of fire
are another matter.