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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: I thinI see our problem. (Was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX?
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:58:35 GMT
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- In <!jt240c@rpi.edu> strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore) writes:
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- > In reality it sounds more like you are talking about DC-10,
- >DC-12, etc.
- > Unless you are saying that a 747 is the same plane as a DC-3
- >was.
- > If your claims are about 50 years from now, or even 20
- >eyars from now, I'll buy them.
-
- I think it would do you a world of good to go out to your local
- airport and look around.
-
- Do you have any idea how many DC-3s are still flying? After 50
- years?
-
- And the 747, which you cite as an example of a modern airplane,
- is well over 20 years old!
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