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From: jao@ihopa.UUCP (Julia O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Emergency Landings
Message-ID: <201@ihopa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 14:36:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 27 14:36:49 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Thanks to all for the information about alternative landing
site possibilities.  How's this for some historical perspective:

Once upon a time, when I was looking around in a research
library, I found some *very* old copies of "Aviation Week."
These were *long* before it became "Aviation Week and Space Technology."

There was an article by one of the Wright brothers on his view
of the future of aviation.  He envisioned a future in which it
would be possible to fly safely across America.  The technology
would become so sophisticated, he felt, that planes would be
capable of *gliding* safely for several miles after (inevitable)
engine failure.  So runways would be constructed every 10 miles
all across the country to provide for safe emergency landings.
-- 
	Julia O'Keefe
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	AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il.