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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Saving an overweight SSTO....
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:47:27 GMT
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- In <1jpcvtINNmjh@mirror.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
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- >How about this. ping pong around. HawaII to Ecuador. Ecuador to Spain.
- >Spain to Tanzania. Tanzania to India, India to Australia, Australia
- >to Hawaii.
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- >You bounce around and just keep meeting cargos.
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- The problem is, that assumes an equal number of cargoes in all
- locations, which wouldn't be the case. You'd have a lot of
- cargoes waiting for you in Hawaii, fewer in India and Australia,
- practically none in Ecuador and Tanzania.
-
- Ideas like this make sense when you're talking about expendable
- artillery shells, and the emphasis is on maximum performance,
- but when you're talking about airplanes -- or spaceships --
- operational considerations must take precedence.
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