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- From: gbt@cray.com (Greg Titus)
- Subject: Re: Launch views, Tiles & New book on STS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.175009.19384@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <1ikjl2INNl6o@ub.d.umn.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:50:09 CST
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- In article <1ikjl2INNl6o@ub.d.umn.edu> cpatters@ub.d.umn.edu (Granma) writes:
- >Question: Some years ago, a popular car magazine (Car & Driver?)
- >did a "road test" on the RSS. (ok, it might not have been the
- >RSS, but from reading this, my civilian mind figured the RSS might
- >just be the "thaang" in question! :-) The article was really very
- >funny. If anyone out there in net land knows the name of the
- >magazine and the date, please email me.
-
- Can't tell you the year, but it was almost certainly Road & Track.
- The April 1st issue frequently contains a road test of some weird
- thing or other. Sometime in the late 70's they tested a Rose Bowl
- float. It had all the standard stuff: acceleration curves, top
- speed, turning radius, etc.
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- greg
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