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The only thing he could POSSIBLY be faulted for was not accounting for heavier planes impacting a building...But where does THAT stop ? A laden 747 NOWADAYS, I think, is about half again as heavy as the first ones that they were dreaming of in '66...And God only knows what weights an Airbus 380 will be totin' around in 30, 40 years, assuming they make ever-bigger versions of it as well...And what will Boeing do ? They CAN'T let the 380 go unanswered...Will we see 2 million pound behemoths plying the skies? Or will they try again w/supersonic planes, which won't be as heavy, but would still pack a helluva wallop ? And the trend is for ever-taller skyscrapers... How DO you engineer a 2500' high building to withstand a hit from a 2 million pound jet at 600MPH ? Or even the dream of some, a MILE HIGH skyscraper ? That's kinda pushing it, but is it pushing it any more than the Empire State pushed the envelope back in 1930 ?
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