Xref: utzoo news.groups:10342 rec.aviation:15039 sci.space.shuttle:3310 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ig!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.aviation,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Call for discussion: SCI.AERONAUTICS Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 89 16:52:32 GMT References: <2524@molokai.sw.mcc.com> <12164@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 38 In-reply-to: aviator@athena.mit.edu's message of 23 Jun 89 13:15:25 GMT In article <12164@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> aviator@athena.mit.edu (Joakim Karlsson) writes: >In article <2524@molokai.sw.mcc.com> mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) writes: >> >> >>> After consulting with several frequent posters to comp.risks and rec.aviation, >>> we concluded that it is desirable to have a separate newsgroup dedicated to >>> airliner technology, particularly concentrating on: safety, human-interface >>> issues (cockpit and otherwise, concentrating on the burgeoning role of >>> automation), operations, and general aeronautics. >> >>Robert Dorsett >I agree wholeheartedly. Since the first time I used rn, I have missed an >aeronautical equivalent of sci.space (and know sci.military). Two years >back I suggested renaming sci.space to sci.aerospace, since a lot of non- >space related aeronautical discussion took place in that group. I am all >for sci.aeronautics. So am I. As an aerospace engineer who works on fighters, I'd really like to have somewhere to discuss common topics with the civil people, for example. Right now we're discussing stall/spin/departure dynamics in sci.military and probably boring everyone else in the group. I didn't even know that airliners had been discussed in comp.risks since I don't read it. I find rec.aviation more oriented to the procedural aspects of flying, with emphasis on the FAA and its ever-wonderful regulations :-), but I'm not a pilot so all of these topics fly right over my head. -- M F Shafer |Ignore the reply-to address NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility |Use shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov NASA management doesn't know what I'm doing and I don't know what they're doing, and everybody's happy this way.