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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle roll maneuver
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Date: 2 Nov 89 17:53:57 GMT
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In article <6371@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
> So why don't they put airport runways on a big turntable so they can
> always point the airplane the direction it wants to go?

First, let's ignore cost...of real estate, if nothing else.

Imagine the feelings of pssengers in the terminal when the runway is
turned into the current wind...aimed directly at the terminal in
which they are currently residing.  Adds a new dimension to the term
"pre-flight jitters".

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"...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by 
reorganizing: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion 
of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization."
	- Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.