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From: millard@eos.UUCP (Millard Edgerton)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: The shuttle runway at the Cape
Message-ID: <5821@eos.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 00:24:49 GMT
References: <990@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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From article <990@milton.acs.washington.edu>, by swanie@milton.acs.washington.edu (Eric Swansen):
> Perhaps the environmentalists have complained that the orbiters would kill
> too many gators and/or wild boars !

As a pilot flying an expensive ROCK(glider), who try to land on a runway
that is too short? And if you undershoot or overshoot you are in a swamp!
And.....if a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g goes wrong and you swerve sideways you are in
a swamp!

The last landing there , the runway was fogged in and just before decision
time, to go elsewhere like Lincoln, NE, the fog cleared.  When the wheels
stopped, the approach end of the runway was again socked in!

No intelligent person would have planned that runway!

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