Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!nscpdc!cvedc!billa
From: billa@cvedc.UUCP (Bill Anderson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing sites
Message-ID: <642@otto.cvedc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 21:34:14 GMT
References: <2137@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> <5590@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <794@hadron.UUCP> <5157@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <2349@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1144@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Reply-To: billa@otto.UUCP (Bill Anderson)
Organization: Computervision Beaverton Oregon
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In article <1144@orion.cf.uci.edu> dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause) writes:
>I can't quote weights of either craft, but I know that if a 747 going
>out of LAX has to abort the flight, it has to dump most of it's fuel
>into the Pacific before returning to land.  Now I don't know if the
>weak part is the landing gear or the runway, but a loaded 747 is ob-
>viously VERY heavy.

I suspect the reason for dumping the fuel has much more to do with
reducing the risk/severity of fire in the event of a crash than it has
to do with reducing the weight of the aircraft.

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