"Yeff" wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:49:43 -0500, Andrew Chaplin wrote:

Why the loss of performance?

It doesn't start off with the speed of a launching aircraft.

That's what I thought it would be. So one needs something like a boost
stage if one is to have anything like the same envelope?
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