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- Subject: Re: DC-1 eventual construction question...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.113743.1@max.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:37:43 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan21.141726.1@max.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan26.024338.10181@iti.org> <ewright.728027076@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan27.020909.11819@iti.org>
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- In article <1993Jan27.020909.11819@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- > In article <ewright.728027076@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >
- >>Boeing is prepared to go ahead with an SSTO project, if it
- >>can be shown what the markets are.
- >
- > Sure. The operative words are 'if it can be shown what the markets are'.
- > They won't settle for expected space tourism or other applications which
- > may or may not happen.
-
- As far as I know, boeing doesn't really care WHAT you do with one of their
- planes once you buy it (as long as you stay within the operational parameters).
-
- To this end, "what the markets are" really means people lined up cash in hand
- to buy one or two of these things.
-
- Boeing does study the airplane market, and it hurts when an airline goes under,
- but they are not in the operations business. This means that someone somewhere
- needs to make an order for one or two of these birds. Those are the people
- that need to know "what the markets are".
-
- This seems to be true of all of the people who are "willing" to build an SSTO.
-
- My question is more on the order of "how do we convince the manufacturers that
- they will be able to sell these things?" Including the possibility that
- somehow WE as a group step up, and place an order.
-
- John.
-