RE: 300' limit
Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:47:27 -0800
>Micheal wrote:
>> An engineer CANNOT build a ship such as the ark. Wood is not up to
>>the task, being neither strong nor rigid enough (those are two completely
>>different properties by the way).
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>Lets put some facts on this board for all to see. If you go to Oregon and
>visit the Spruce Goose and learn its history, you will find the prevailing
>argument of many structual engineers was: "A plane of that size cannot be
>built because wood is not strong enough." The plane is not built of
>Spruce, BTW. History proved them wrong didn't it?! Non-skeptical enginneers
>didn't listened to the skeptical engineers and did what skeptics said, "was
>impossible." Those are the facts. If you can't solve a problem then someone
>else will.
>Aubrey
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