Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!andy From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Dumb question #652 Message-ID: <2792@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 4 Jun 90 11:11:31 GMT References: Organization: University of Sussex Lines: 14 From article , by shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer): > I went down to the runway for an SCA/Shuttle takeoff once and it > wasn't exactly zooming off into the wild blue yonder. It's pretty > heavy and, being a older 747, a little lacking in thrust compared > to the later models. What's to stop NASA spending a few quid on a set of more powerful engines for the SCA, i.e. as fitted (?) to the later 747's? Is there some sort of compatibility problem? Hmm, there's a useful job for Concorde's engines when it retires :-) :-) -- Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, England JANET: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: andy%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac