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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: "A Design Proposal That Would Make Passenger Planes Safe"
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 12:52:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 12:52:59 1986
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The RAF (Royal Air Force, not Rutan Aircraft Factory :-) put rearward
facing seats in their passenger transport aircraft many years ago (like
over 30).  I don't know whether they still do, and will find out if no-one
on the net responds with information.  I do remember a discussion in 
"Flight" in which the obvious question arose of whether this configuration
improved survivability in crashes of RAF transports.  The answer (some
years ago, as I said) was "We don't know, we haven't had any".

Bob Langridge			    rl@ucsfcgl (ARPA, UUCP, BITNET)
Computer Graphics Laboratory			 
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