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Old 29th Apr 2005, 12:03
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gaunty

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I too am concerned about the longevity of the composite fuselage, but if anyone is to make them work it will be Boeing
me three.

Maybe they should talk to Raytheon or the Beech people who did the ALL composite Starship, it basically brought the original Beech company undone which is why it is now owned by Raytheon.

The only way they could get em out of the factory was to lease them and they subsequently and only recently have taken them all back and scrapped em.

IMHO Boeing are betting the farm if they go all composite. They don't need to right now and they can go incremental on it.
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