Replies to post #106690 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[scorpio_esq]

I hate to jump into these Wavoid disputations, but you miss KHILLO's point, almost completely, in fact. He speaks of the DC-3 being recognizable as the first airplane to be like a modern airplane in form and function. The operative words are: "in form and function", yet you you respond by reciting a lot of characteristics of contemporary aircraft that comprise not form and function, but what engineers and designers might call, 'implementation details', or things that are not intrinsic to the essential form and function of the object or machine in question. You are the exponent of the logical fallacy, not khillo. It's as if I would say that Archeoptyrex was the first animal recognizable to modern observers as comparable in form and function to a modern bird. That would be a completely accurate, non-fallacious assertion, despite the considerable differences in the non-essential details in the two creatures.

[micro59]

goin fishin,

I believe that perhaps you have taken khillo's metaphors, similes and analogies to an all time extreme.

As a matter of FACT, the DC-3 was/is the forerunner of modern transportation airlioners. It was called "the bus" by lots of people. And yes, what wasn't made of steel and steel alloys and aluminum during that era.
That was not the point khillo was making.

By the way, though I am not a pilot, I did work for Grumman when I was much younger and I do know quite a bit about modern fighter aircraft that I was much involved in, and even though there is no semblance of a DC-3 to an F-16, i don't take exception to khillo's post.
Maybe you might want to reconsider being so harsh and combative. It serves no good purpose and only causes bad board relations.

thanks for your consideration,

micro....