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- From: sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com (Rod Sprattling)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Surface to Air Motorcycle (was: Re: Definitive HD TV/Vid Authorized Collectible)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.173927.17140@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:39:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.124611.19732@news.arc.nasa.gov> <4612@cvbnetPrime.COM> <1993Jan26.020729.28601@tcsi.com>
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- Reply-To: sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com (Rod Sprattling)
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- In article <1993Jan26.020729.28601@tcsi.com>, markk@tcs.com (Mark
- Kromer) writes:
- ....
- |>I should point out that the army's Stealth Attack Motorcycle (SAM)
- |>should not be confused with the more ambitious Surface to Air
- |>Motorcycle (SAM) being developed for the Marine Corps. The marine
- |>project is being developed from concepts pioneered by Evil Kenieval
- |>with his rocket powered canyon jumping bike. The idea is to deploy
- |>motorcycle mounted troops to the beach from ships offshore by
- |>launching them from the decks with rockets.
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- From ship through the air and then coming back *down* to the beachheads?
- And stay in *one piece*? Do the folks at HDSMPR&D (HD Secret Military
- Products Rev & Dive) not know that the T2 jump was artful fiction?
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- Sigh. Then at least let's come up with a suitable acronym. Let's see.
- Ship-to-Beach.... No. Ship-to-Air-to-Beach.... No. OK. let them call it
- Ship-to-Air-Then-Catch-Hell-MOtorcycle. SATCHMO, for short.
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- Rod
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- Roderick Sprattling | DoD #132
- sprattli@azores.crd.ge.com | '92 Spagthorpe Interloper, '84 Volvo
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