(Thread drift....):
MOA999: 'We will be left with a small third party aircraft maintenance industry, but then we won't have an oil refining industry, a steel processing industry, a garment manufacturing industry... just mining... dig it up and ship it out'
There's always a career in aged care....I'll look after you....
Jack Ranga: 'Note: never buy the first model of anything'
A saying, variously worded, comes to mind:
'Be not the first by which the new are tried;
Be not the first by which the old are set aside.'
('Destination Disaster- The story of the DC10'- Eddie/Page/Potter, circa 1976)