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Ask the pilot: What do U.S. carriers need to do to regain their status as world-class players? Wi-Fi would help

I don't like hype. I especially don't like hype when it involves big, ugly, overrated airplanes that have, by this point, garnered more than their fair allotment of attention. You know the plane I'm talking about. <P>The puffery got going in the spring of 2005, when the Airbus A380 took to the air for its maiden test flight. "The most anticipated flight since Concorde leapt from the pavement in 1969," cried one news report. "Straight into the history books," said another of the "gargantuan double-decked superjumbo." Oh the humanity. Over on the Airbus Web site they were channeling Neil Armstrong, inviting visitors to listen to the "first words of chief test pilot Jacques Rosay." <p>...</p><img src="http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/tech/~4/365271307" height="1" width="1"/>

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