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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: I thinI see our problem. (Was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.162459.20371@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:24:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ke4zv.1992Dec27.162459.20371
- References: <1gt36dINNq3h@mirror.digex.com> <1992Dec20.195520.3587@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725060424@convex.convex.com> <!jt240c@rpi.edu> <ewright.725129915@convex.convex.com>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
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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.
- >
- >Do you have any idea how many DC-3s are still flying? After 50
- >years?
-
- Better ask how many Wright Flyers are still in operation. That's
- a closer approximation of where we are in spaceflight relative
- to aeronautics. And don't forget to check on how many DC-1s and
- DC-2s are still doing scheduled flights.
-
- To compare aviation and spaceflight, go back in aviation history
- to where the total number of hours of powered flight of all aircraft
- equal the total number of hours of powered flight for all launchers.
- We're still at the sticks and string level. Actually, I'd claim we're
- back with the Montgolfier brothers.
-
- Gary
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