Re: The plastic Boeing 787
Didn't Airbus do some similar "big leap forward" steps with their Airbus A-320??? How many new techonologies were there then that were questioned. The video of the A-320 plowing into the trees after the fly-by was spectacular. These days it can be argued that the fly-by-wire Airbuses have been one of the best marketing decisions that Airbus made.
Yeah, I call Airbus' marketing bluff on this. Lots of stones crossing the Atlantic these days.