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- From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: Falcon 3.01.1 High Fidelity Flight Model bug (?)
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 00:56:51 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- References: <4666@execu.execu.com> <1992Dec11.184237.11772@convex.com> <BzBIt3.3CC@news.cecer.army.mil>
- Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
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- John Jabusch (jabusch@zorro.cecer.army.mil) writes:
- >garee@convex.com (Scott Garee) writes:
- >
- >>Also, someone mentioned hydrazine. That is used in spacecraft, not
- >>airplanes. It is far too deadly to be used in civilian areas. A
- >>human can detect it at about 5 parts per million, it is lethal at 3.
- >
- >Wrong! Hydrazine is a super carcinogen, and lethal at low levels, but
- >it is used on some military aircraft. The most notable is the F-16.
- >[...]
- >There would be a lot fewer F-16s in the inventory if it weren't for
- >hydrazine....
-
- Okay, but why hydrazine? Given its extreme lethality (if that's a word), it
- seems a very poor choice. I would think that there must be something else
- that would work almost as well.... Maybe not.
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