Tarver Engineering wrote:

"Michael Zaharis" wrote in message

BTW, how has the -H been deveoped? I remember some dire warnings early
on when that aircraft was added to the fleet that it would not be able
to fulfill all of the roles that the old -Bs do. Have they been able to
work around that?


My information is that the L-1011 launch airplane has them beat in payload
and climb rate. A lot of work has been done on the H WRT instrumentation
and I know it was expected to debute with the X-43 launch.


Will they eventually retire the final -B carrier and rely fully on the -H?


That is something that was already supposed to have happened.



Thanks.