On 11/6/2010 9:49 PM, Brian Thorn wrote:


It isn't so much the aircraft as the expertise to operate it and the
mating devices. There are not enough missions for the aircraft and
crews to justify keeping them around indefinitely.

I always wondered how the 747 behaves with that Shuttle riding up there,
turning it into some sort of giant jet-powered biplane.
Not that it wouldn't be the only jet-powered biplane ever built; meet
the bizarre Polish jet-powered crop-duster aircraft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor
I would say that that was the "answer to the question no one ever
asked", but the Soviets did ask that question, and Poland's PZL aircraft
answered it. :-D
BTW, superheated Polish Axami Lingerie model shows her stuff...and she's
got a _lot_ of stuff to show, by God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSbcu...eature=related
This girl knows what boys like; this girl knows what men want. :-)

Pat