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- From: strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore)
- Subject: Re: I thinI see our problem. (Was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX?
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- References: <ewright.725060424@convex.convex.com> <!jt240c@rpi.edu> <ewright.725129915@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:55:59 GMT
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- In article <ewright.725129915@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <!jt240c@rpi.edu> strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore) writes:
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- Are you stupid, or do you jsut like being argumentative?
-
- >Do you have any idea how many DC-3s are still flying? After 50
- >years?
- >
- I never claimed that DC-3's aren't flying. What I am
- claiming, is taht DC-3's aren't flying 400+ passengers on
- trans-atlantic routes. 747's are. And 747's came long
- after the DC-3.
- To make it a little clearer, since you seem to want
- to twist everything I say: DC-1 won't do everything. It may
- do a lot, and Joe Schmoe SpaceLines may be flying one in 2095,
- but by 2095 I expect we'll have the space equilavent of the
- 747.
-
- >And the 747, which you cite as an example of a modern airplane,
- >is well over 20 years old!
- >
- So? What's your point?
-
- Let me make my point clear:
- "DC-1 will NOT be doing everything from satellite delivery to
- satellite repair, to delivering cabbages, to lunar landing, to
- fuel supplies, etc within the next 5 years. Perhaps not even
- within the next 10. But, it's follow-ons will do even more.
- A DC-3 doesn't do everything. That's why we have the DC-9,
- DC-10, L-1011, 747-100,200,300,400 etc."
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