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In article <wXtB9Ny00VA9Q810hj@andrew.cmu.edu>, jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jean-Marc Debaud) writes:
>>>The delay was from court battles over the noise issue.
>> True. But it wasn't really a problem. Does the Europeans have more
>>capacities to handle high level of noise ? No.
> 
> *Just a less, uh, "developed" legal system.
> 
> So we are undercivilised ? Are we ?
> Do you really believe that if the plane makes a lot of noise to
> the point that it is untolerable, just because we are underdevelop
> we can't have it stoped ?
> 
> Just typical of a certain attitude about foreign countries.
> But just wait a while. If you can see what I mean...

Calm down a bit, Jean-Marc.  Note the quotes around 'developed' in the
other writers' comment.  If you hung around the US (or most any
American) that would have been a tip-off that he was referring to the
somewhat...um...enthusiastic lawyers dealing in product liability
suits.

Which has led to horrendously-expensive small aircraft, or *no*
production of such aircraft, or no import of the very nice european
private aircraft into the US.  (SOCATA, for example, abandoned plans
to sell their single-engined aircraft in the US mostly on the high
cost of product liability.  Too bad, the Tobago and Trinidad look like
nice birds.)