Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!uokmax!jabishop From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: In-Flight Refueling Message-ID: <1991Apr19.144446.17392@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 14:44:46 GMT References: Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 31 shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: >In article sandersn@nietzsche.rdrc.rpi.edu (Donald Sanderson) writes: > Have there been any consideration of making modifications to the 747 > ferry aircraft to allow for in-flight refueling ? If this is [...] >The pilots talked to the 747 pilots (I forget the military >designation, E-4 maybe, but it has refuelling) in the Air Force, flew The E-4 National Emergency Airborne Command Post is a converted 747. [...] >The primary purpose, incidentally, wasn't to save time, it was to >retrieve the Shuttle from such alternate landing sites as Hickam AFB >in Hawaii. The SCA doesn't have the range, carrying the Shuttle, to >make it back from there. So what are the current plans for returning a Shuttle if it lands overseas? -------- jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu "I'm with you, LEM, though it's a shame that it had to be you. The mother ship is just a blip from your train made for two. I'm with you, boys, so please employ just a little extra care. It's on my mind, I'm left behind when I should have been there." --Jethro Tull, "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey, and Me"