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- From: rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again))
- Subject: Re: AIRLINE IN-FLIGHT REFULEING
- References: <1992Nov21.191135.12538@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Vis-Orb Tragnetics Recorporation
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:30:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.191135.12538@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman) writes:
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- >I was just thinking, commercial jets are big and heavy, and they carry
- >a hell of a lot of fuel... right? Well at 6ppg, it adds up... and
- >for the most part, you are burning fuel to carry fuel right?
- >
- >When/where would it make sence for air lines to have in flight refueling?
- [...]
-
- Well, if you have a tanker up there to fuel the planes, aren't you
- still "burning fuel to carry fuel"? Also, it is not legal for U>S> registered
- aircraft to fly formation with other aircraft. It's in the FARs that you
- cannot do formation flight in a flight "for compensation or hire". There are
- other reasons, such as the many things that could go wrong (any AF types want
- to give examples here?).
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-
- Raymond L. Swartz Jr. (rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu)
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- I read the newspaper today and was amazed that, in 24 hours, five billion
- people could accomplish so little.
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