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 From: gouigoui@gmail.com 
  
 "Gordon"  wrote in message 
 news:1160147558.218598.203500@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... 
 >I have watched many TV programmes about passenger planes crashing and 
 > breaking up and being ingulfed in smoke and fire and many people dieing 
 > and how the owners try to make planes safer which looked liked hopeless 
 > inadequate attempts they were suggesting and people would still die the 
 > way planes are still built and i was wondering why passenger planes and 
 > the fuel tanks are not made of composite plastic? 
 > 
 > I have experimented with plastic and found the corkscrew part of coke 
 > bottles very strong and cheap plastic,i had the idea that just like 
 > moulds are made to make the coke bottles,giant moulds could be made to 
 > mass produce airplanes made of this strong plastic,if the plane crashed 
 > it would not disintegrate or catch fire and if it crashed at sea it 
 > would float and could be towed back to land by a ship. 
 > 
 > http://www.scaled.com 
 > I came across this composite plastic website who make small plastic 
 > planes and who made the composite plastic space shuttles for Richard 
 > Branson. 
 > 
 > Stellios of easyjet should be interested in this idea aswell? 
 > 
 The plastic in the cap is strong because of its size and shape. Plastic 
 burns like a a bat out of hell!! 
  
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