> Unlike previous aircraft - there is little sheet metal or aluminum. > The material is like a giant woven silk fabric - except its some > pretty high-powered chemisty. > > High powered chemistry? I don't want to ride that aircraft if it's > made of > the same stuff as Charles' brain! > I think it's the same stuff Bert Rutan's planes are made of. Does his boast that noone ever was killed in a plane he designed still hold good? I'll have to admit the composite vertical stabilizer fell off that AA A300 Airbus over Jamaica Bay, though. Of course neither Boeing nor Rutan had anything to do with that one. Who made the plane that cracked in half landing in Indonesia the other week? They and the Nigerians and the Cypriots seem to have problems keeping 737's out of trouble. It's hard to think of everything. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://www.wilowud.net/ http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html http://foley.foleypages.net/~gerry/