[rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...

[Michael Free]

The air force still flies B-52's, some of them, though refitted, were in
service prior to 1965. IIRC many of the Navy's Viking and Intruder aircraft
date from the end of the Vietnam era, A lot of the F-14 fleet was built
around the era Columbia was, though.

The simple fact is, there is no replacement for the Orbiter fleet, and
they're in trouble now that they're down to 3.

Mike Free
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joacim Melin" <listor at melin.org>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...


> Though I no nothing about space shuttles, I wonder if the airforce
> would use an aircraft in active duty built 1981 ?  As far as I know,
> the Columbia was built around that time, but I might be wrong in both
> cases.
>
> And as far as the theories that this is a terrorist act - try taking an
> aircraft down that's flying at a high altitude like the Columbia was at
> a speed of 20000km/h.  I don't buy it - I think this is an accident,
> pure and simple. A really unfortunate one at that.
>
> joacim
>
> "You can tell how desperate they are by counting the number of times
> they say "innovate" in their press releases."
>
> -------------------------------
> who > joacim melin
> how > joacim at melin.org
> where > http://z80.org
> -------------------------------
>
> On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 20:44 Europe/Stockholm, Kris Kirby wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> >>> 3) Colombia is the oldest shuttle (Challenger was, until it went).
> >>
> >> Columbia was the first shuttle, I ever heard about.  I thought the
> >> Challenger was #2.
> >
> > Not to pick at nits, but if I remember my shuttle literature right (the
> > press pack contains a flip-notebook of every mission), Enterprise came
> > first, but was merely an aerodynamic model. Then Challenger, as another
> > model. Finally, Columbia was build from the ground up as a shuttle, and
> > Challenger was then converted into a regular shuttle.
> >
> > --
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