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From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott)
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Subject: Re: Easter Island
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Date: 1 Aug 90 18:26:34 GMT
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In article <1990Aug1.132127.7689@pinet.aip.org>, marc@pinet.aip.org
(Marc Wiener) writes:

> I believe the author was Tom Easton, but it might have been published under
> the pen-name Lee Corey. NASA did not have a landing strip at Easter Island
> until after the book was published. They claim it is merelly a coincidence.

Lee Correy, a pseudonym for G. Harry Stine.  I just read the book after
seeing it mentioned in these bytes.  It prompted a question about the 
turnarounds they had to build for the C-5s; they expended much effort in 
building these concrete aprons for the C-5s to turn around to take off,
but surely the C-5 has to be towed around anyway, so why couldn't they have
just towed the plane backwards along the runway?  And it would already 
be facing into the wind.

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