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Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Mark Kent wrote:
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Over 30s VAX, Linux breeds Boeing's new jets
>>>>>
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>>>>>| Hawker de Havilland, the local arm of aircraft engineering giant
>>>>>| Boeing, will retire its 30-year-old VAX system in favour of its new
>>>>>| Linux-based environment in the manufacture of parts for the company's
>>>>>| next-generation 787 jets.
>>>>> `----
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>>>>>
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1834585068;fp;2;fpid;1
>>>>
>>>> Wow, didn't realise that Boeing had managed to buy both Hawker and de
>>>> Havilland.
>>>>
>>>
>>> what, are you kidding? The bits of the aerospace industry that
>>> Lockheed-Martin own, Boeing don't want.
>>>
>>
>> I thought Hawker had disappeared into the Bae juggernaught... still,
>> you can see the value that US defence spending had for the US aircraft
>> industry. de Havilland Comet, anyone?
>>
>
> ah, classic plane... was that the pocket-portable one with the (midair)
> detachable wings?
Well, err, yes, at least until metal-fatigue was understood. It's still
flying now as Nimrod, of course, and would've been the main airborne
early-warning system had it not been for Margaret Thatcher falling into
the "American is good" thinking and getting us locked into technology we
do not control. Stupid.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
One of the disadvantages of having children is that they eventually get old
enough to give you presents they make at school.
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