On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:49:15 -0500, catsrus
wrote:

Mary -
Is there any sensible reason why your airframe was retired from
service when it still seemed to be viable?

No agency mission. We didn't have any experiments that justified
keeping it going.

Was it only a money issue or is there more to it than that?

I suspect that money was part of the decision, since it usually is,
but it was probably more of an effect than a cause.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer