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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: SSTO vs 2 stage
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:51:02 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.180058.28938@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
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- >The mass ratio on an airliner is much less than in a launcher with
- >chemical rocket propulsion, for rather fundamental reasons. It is
- >therefore not inconceivable that multistage launchers would be
- >appropriate even though multistage aircraft are not.
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- I didn't ask if you could say "It is not inconceivable." I asked
- if you could prove it.
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