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From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Abort to Orbit
Message-ID: <1000@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 01:17:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 01:17:03 1985
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> I seem to remember that the range of the 747-shuttle piggyback
> combination is only about 1000 miles. If they ever do abort to
> Rota, Spain how do they get the damned thing back to the USA
> 
> Mike

Quite easy really. Refuel the 747 at a couple of airports on the way!

The 747 took Enteprise to the Paris (France) Air Show a couple of years ago.
The 'plane refuelled in Greenland and also at Fairford (England) USAF base,
where I, and many others, had the chance of a very close look at the shuttle.

The 747 stayed at Fairford for a couple of hours and went on to France. On
the way back it was flow back to Stansted (just outside London) and stayed a
couple of days, giving many people the chance to see the shuttle on it's
first trip outside the USA.

-- 
 [ I bought a ticket to the world, 
                              But now I've come back again - Spandau Ballet ]
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