Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!guardian!prune
From: prune@guardian.UUCP (prune)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Toughness of Boeing craft
Message-ID: <186@guardian.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 00:01:53 GMT
Reply-To: prune@myrddyn.i.intel.com (Prune Wickart)
Organization: Intel Corp.,  Development Tools, Hillsboro, OR
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Alan Wexelblat writes:
>
> The WWII-era Boeing B-17 was legendary for the amount of damage it could
> absorb and still keep flying.  Pilots flew them with one engine (of four),
> put them into vertical climbs & dives and got away with it, etc.
>
> Since this is sci.space.shuttle, the question is then: why isn't Boeing
> building our shuttles?

John Allred replies:
> They weren't the lowest bidder.  Can you imagine the confidence that
> evokes from the astronauts?  ("Hey, Herb, we're riding something that was
> designed, built, and repaired by the lowest bidder.  Great!").

   Am I getting old, or are memories short? Alan Sheppard raised exactly this
point when asked about this feelings toward being the second person in space.

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