Another Euro success reminicient of the Concorde.

It's interesting that the impression of the A380 in the article was, well, that's it's big - but with same tech from yesteryears airplanes.

Did anyone else with even a marginal aviation background pick up an ill-omened nuance from the article's headline? Sort of like writing about a "sinking feeling" in a piece about a ship, I should say.

Words are wonderful in their richness and complexity. "Spin" is used to mean a "journey" and one reader sees the irony of disingenuous dissimulation, and another sees that occasioned by the image of an aircraft out of control.

All of us should take the warning to consider the baggage a word carries before we use it. Still, a fine writer will choose a word with a secondary meaning and use it of a purpose.

Lou: How true. In our History texts the word "booty" is still a boldfaced, must-learn, voacabulary word in the Viking section. After all the snickering they're amazed that its definition has nothing to do with...well, you know.