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- From: drela@athena.mit.edu (Mark Drela)
- Subject: Re: High-flying Perseus research aircraft ready for rollout [Re
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:24:13 GMT
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- In article <72013@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
- |> Hey, this plane sounds like it would be a great weapon, especially in the
- |> role of a recce platform for third-world nations. It would be cheap, and
- |> few adversary third-world nations can shoot down a robot flying above 80K
- |> feet.
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- Perseus was never intended to be a weapon. The people at Aurora will be the
- first to point out that Perseus was developed without one cent of DoD money.
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- Mark Drela First Law of Aviation:
- MIT Aero & Astro "Takeoff is optional, landing is compulsory"
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