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Old Oct 4, 2011 | 11:58 pm
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Originally Posted by Canarsie
He mentioned to me that he did not understand why aircraft manufacturers went out of their way to provide windows when it would be so much more cost effective not to do so. Just put solid sheets of material instead of cutting out openings — and there would probably be fuel savings as well.
Now that I think about it, I hope he was not including eliminating the windows in the cockpit as well...
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