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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> writes:
> > It seems wrong to use the term "experimental" for a -RELEASE.
> 
> Yet huge numbers of people trust their lives to airplanes labeled
> "experimental", even forming the Experimental Aircraft Association.  But
> I suppose they're so happy to have not been shut down by the Feds that
> they'd be willing to go along with a Federal "flying coffin" label.
> 
> > Maybe some other terminology could be used -- any ideas?
> 
> "Non-mature"?

"New And Improved"?

-- Terry