To: biff
The FAA mandated additional structural requiremants that added to the weight of the aircraft that reduced performance and required a 2 man crew as opposed to 1.
15 posted on
07/20/2007 8:09:55 PM PDT by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: saganite
Good enough place to bump this thread for later reading. I’ve been a fan of Burt Rutan for more than 25 years.
27 posted on
07/23/2007 8:55:05 AM PDT by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq -- via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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