On 01/18/2009 08:28 AM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > With that said, I'd be careful about claiming "ditchworthiness".
It *is* something they design for. It's required by the FARs. Newer aircraft are better at it than older aircraft. And that's not a fluke or any kind of "miracle". It's something they design for. > Note that the 787 should not have the problem with shredding of fuselage > skin. It's made of the same materials that boat hulls are (roughly speaking) > ;-) Boats that hit the water at 110+ knots? What kind of boat hulls are those? Gotta get me one of them! :-) > Regardless, Airbus has got to be happy that their plane did so well in > this accident, given the circumstances. There has been quite a string of this kind of highly-conditional happiness. The US had *zero* airline fatalities for 2007 and 2008. There were some crashes, just no fatalities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
