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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:14:16 -0400, Peter Stickney wrote:
To make the Pacific run, you've got to be able to divert (worst case) ha;fway between San Francisco and Hawaii - that's on the order of 1300 miles. (IIRC, the California-Honolulu leg is the longest single stage on the planet.) That would have required something like the Boeing 2707, or its Lockheed competitor (L-1000?) Those were much bigger than Concorde - about 4 times the size, and 3 times th epassenger capacity. And, it should be pointed out, also a far more expensive proposition. and then you have far more people to haul from Europe to the USA and back than to and from Honolulu. #m -- The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil, the less one is tempted to place the Good in question. (J.P. Sartre) |
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