On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:15:17 -0500, Swingman wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:17:39 -0500, Swingman wrote:
On 11/3/2012 2:38 PM, Dave wrote:
On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:26:06 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lcb1121...ream/lightbox/
If those dimensions are correct, I'd be terrified of someone brushing
against one of those wings as they were walking by and ripping a plane
from its foundations.
My preference would be to organize a strong enough mounting bracket
and mount the planes vertically or sideways higher up on a wall.
My guess is that anybody smart enough to be in the airplane business
knows how to protect one, even if it is just a model ... like maybe
having displays behind roped off areas, you reckon?
Almost a guarantee, eh? 
Not in today's world. Besides, the people designing planes and the
people in charge of the displays are bound to be different. Mr. Murphy
is in charge of that little facet, isn't he?
Not necessarily your concern. Assuming/guessing who's in charge of what
notwithstanding, what is a fact is that when you design-to-build to
someone's very specific, and apparently in this case, commercial
specifications, your preference about how it is ultimately used don't
necessarily mean **** .... unfortunate or not. 
Nope, not our (and probably not Leon's) concern at all. But a good
vendor of components attempts to pass on potentially good info to the
client in case he hasn't thought of it. One or two quick questions, if
they're amenable to them, and from there, it's up the client. Give
them what they think they want, then go back & fix it later, right?
Along a similar but different line, I've walked away from building or
rebuilding a couple projects because the client didn't care about
safety or code (not that I know much about them, either.) I used the
ploy "That method is not up to building code requirements and my
insurance company won't allow me to do that."
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