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Comment Re:Would this be the place (Score 1) 334

And therein lies the fatal flaw with an all composite commercial airplane, within the first year of flight service some minimum wage baggage handler will drive his forklift/cart/etc. into the aircraft, fearing for his job he'll tell no one, after a few cycles the damage will have spread far enough to become catastrophic, at which point the 787 will become Boeing's "Comet". A much better choice would have been a hybrid with Al for the lower body and composites for the rest...

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