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Old 21st Jan 2006, 13:26
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Confabulous
 
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I don't know about the rest of you, but it always disappoints me to see an incomplete or sawn-up airframe doing something it wasn't meant to do - purely an emotional thing, IMO it's sacralige to subject what was a marvel of engineering - a work of art even - to the indignity of being sunk like that (and I'm not even a Boeing fan) I'd prefer to see them as gate guards or something - a far more noble end for something that stood the test of time so well.

Obviously it's a better future then being torn apart by chainsaws (which always reminds me of a dissection), but it's a real pity to see.

In Dublin I recently saw an obviously ex-Ryanair 732 being painted over and prepared for it's final flight - it was gone later that day! Sad, although it's great to see the 800's coming in.
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