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From: sw@cbnewsl.att.com (Stuart Warmink)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.aeronautics
Subject: Re: KSC trivia -> Skid strip?
Summary: snarks
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.135358.14958@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 13:53:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jun9.204942.6293@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop) writes:
>      I dimly remember reading a story about this.  As I recall, the people
> at the Cape wanted a runway, but were denied funding.  Someone suggested
> that they should instead ask for a "skid strip" for landing missiles.
> I seem to remember that they were Bomarcs,  [...]

Wasn't there such a thing as a "Snark" too? Big, pre-ICBM intercontinental
unmanned "bomber" - I think they were to land on the skid strip. Many
problems, leading to the quip "Snark infested waters".

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