Fifty percent composite airframe (read plastic) and its first fly-by-wire is Boeing’s new airliner aborning. If, as some speculate, Air France 447 crashed into the Atlantic May 31 because of lightning-induced electrical problems with its computers, Boeing’s robotic Dreamliner could turn into its Nightmare–and ours. But, then, with half the airline market already invested in fly-by-wire Airbus, well… There’ll be plenty of pain to go around.
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