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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [QB] "Which fits into the BoP parable." Not entirely. An A320 directly scaled up to the dimensions of an A380 (which, in your analogy, would still be quite a bit less of an increase than the K'vort/B'rel size ratio, to say nothing of the monstrously large [i]The Defector[/i] BoPs) wouldn't fly at all without drastic modifications to its airframe, nor would an A380 or hypothetically even larger aircraft scaled down to the dimensions of an A320. Aerodynamics may scale well, but structural mechanics don't. And you're right about Airbus' flight-deck philosophy, but, while it has helped the company dethrone Boeing as the number one manufacturer of commercial airliners, cockpit instrumentation ultimately has little bearing on the design of a plane (Boeing could, if there was sufficient demand, retrofit its older aircraft types with the avionics suite of a 777, for instance), because instruments don't determine the flight envelope or operational parameters. Put in Trek terms, the bridge might be shared, but everything trailing behind it is in a bonafide class of its own. B) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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