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- From: shafer@spdcc.com (Mary Shafer)
- Subject: Re: Melmon, pro or con (Re: Are Gay Men Richer, Really?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.172406.10706@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:24:06 GMT
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- Whenever I see Melmon's name, I'm reminded of "Melmoth", a homebuilt
- airplane that its designer/builder claimed would be a _wonderful_
- airplane; faster, better, cheaper, prettier than anything that ever
- rolled out of a factory. We readers of Flying magazine got to follow
- its design and construction in agonizing detail. Then finally came the
- wonderful day that it was finished and the testing began. After a
- careful taxi envelope expansion, it was time to leap off the runway
- and flash through the sky, vindicating the designer. On to the active
- runway, full throttle, and away it raced down the concrete. Faster,
- faster, nosewheel liftoff should happen momentarily, 5,000 ft of
- runway left, 2500 ft of runway left, 1500 ft of runway left, and still
- Melmoth the wonderplane was on the ground. As the end of the runway
- loomed ever closer, even the pround progenitor of Melmoth recognized
- that it wasn't going to leap into the air.
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- That's Melmon; lots of high-speed taxi tests that never get into the
- air.
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- Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com
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