"one thing that I am pretty sure about is that is that engineers at both at Boeing and at Airbus know a lot more about appropriate aircraft design and what is going on here than participants on this board -- and are not as clueless about these things as so many comments seem to imply.[/QUOTE]
Yup, maybe as knowledgeable as the designers of the DC10 - they knew the design was dodgy, but what the hell.,I'm sure it will be fine.