Anyone made an estimate regarding the GW of US1549?
CONF iture, I'd vote for 65000kg. I'm not sure which type of tons you refer to!
DC-ATE: re KISS.
In the 70's you probably had an Operations Manual and a Flight Manual. Easy to distinguish.
Then some bright chap invented the Flight Crew Operating Manual. Since when there's been a generation of trainees wondering... now is that the ops manual or the flight manual...