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Subject: Re: space plane
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> ...as Robert Truax points out: "the TAV is going to be a combination of the
> Space Shuttle and the Concorde, and there's no way that *that's* going to
> be cheap". ... Well, Truax has an axe to grind,  Let's hope he's wrong.

Alas, he may well be right.  I would be a lot happier about the TAV if it
was being done by private industry.  My money right now is on Gary Hudson.

Concorde, by the way, would probably have been a financial success (or at
least only mildly unsuccessful) if all those options had turned into orders.
The current transatlantic services generally make a (small) profit, if you
discount the high costs of maintaining such a small fleet.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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