What concerns me most here is that the FAA position, even if remotely true, seems to be satisfied with safety levels in a new generation aircraft meeting current aircraft saftey levels.
Stop. Rewind. Replay. That's rather like Ford launching a new hybrid vehicle and claiming it matches the safety levels of its 1978 offerings to wit: drum brakes, cross-ply tyres, no ABS, no airbags, no laminated glass, lap-belts.
Let's hope the new Boeing Pinto, sorry 787, doesn't have to be made safer via tombstone technology.
