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12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
"Callistus Valerius" <jazzyboss@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:M1Xji.4766$rR.4715@newsread2.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> Boeing is building it's new plane, the dreamliner, with carbon fiber.
> The wings, fuselage. The cf must be consiberably more impact resistent
> than
> bike frames, or this would be suicide for Boeing. Hell of a note, if you
> looked out the window and saw the wing suddenly break off in some
> turbulence. Even though steel is real, I think Boeing skipped steel, and
> went straight to aluminum. Titanium, is too expensive and I think is only
> used in military planes. Boeing has sold a boat load of these dreamliners
> on contract already, but they still don't have a flying one yet. So if
> you
> fly a lot, you might have trouble finding a flight that isn't in a
> dreamliner when they start filling the skies.
>
>

Will the plane come in nude natural carbon?