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Re: Good but old editorial
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lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:06:45 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.pt, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.loc.pt, Chris Leach writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Pedro Silva writes:
> > > When was this written? It seems like something written in the seventies...
> > 
> > No date but i assume just today or yesterday.Why do you say the seventies????
> 
>   Well, first of all, he doesn't know about European aerospace
>   company Airbus, which produces airliners (and is in fact comparable
>   to Boeing in its output).  He dwells on 1950s and 1960s events,
>   and doesn't even mention later events, even when they would
>   seriously support his case (and there are a lot of them).  He
>   refers to the Lockheed Tri-Star and the 747 as the "Boeing Jumbo
>   Jet," which I haven't heard since before KAL 007.  Japan=radios?
>   c. 1970!  I agree with the article, but it's got "1970s" written
>   all over it.  Might it not be a trenchant reprint?

Sounds like it to me.Still has many good points.
>   Given that Gordon Sinclair has been dead since 1984, I'd bet that
>   would be the case:
> 
>   http://www.gnt.net/~wright/american_ed.html
> 
>   best
> 
>   LFB



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  Re: Good (!) editorial from Canada PLEASE READ (done)
 
(...) Well, first of all, he doesn't know about European aerospace company Airbus, which produces airliners (and is in fact comparable to Boeing in its output). He dwells on 1950s and 1960s events, and doesn't even mention later events, even when (...) (25 years ago, 12-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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