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From: axelson@dasys1.UUCP (Kevin Axelson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing sites
Summary: hills too
Message-ID: <7225@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 03:56:39 GMT
References: <2137@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> <5590@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <794@hadron.UUCP>
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In article <794@hadron.UUCP>, klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) writes:
>
> ... I have heard tales that Dullas is large enough (long enough in
> the runway department) to serve as an emergency landing site.  However,
> the location is wrong.

And a commercial jetliner crashed in the hills just to the west of
the airport a few years back.  Geography is a problem.   

Actually, stretches of the adjoining interstate are so straight that
they might do the trick.  A lot of the drivers seem to be doing Mach 1, too.

Seriously, I'd have thought that a lot of military airstrips would be 
better candidates than commercial airports.  Is this a misconception?

Kevin Axelson
axelson@dasys1.uucp