EXPERT SAYS RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY HOLDS BACK AIR LAUNCH PROJECT

looks like the russians kidnapped Len:

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd...-21&do_alert=0

MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Defence Ministry holds back the development of the project for orbiting satellites from the Ruslan-124-100 jumbo transport under the Air Launch programme, Sergei Mashurov, vice-president of the Russian Air Launch corporation, told RIA Novosti in an interview on Friday.


Herm
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

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looks like the russians kidnapped Len:

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd...-21&do_alert=0

MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Defence Ministry holds back the development of the project for orbiting satellites from the Ruslan-124-100 jumbo transport under the Air Launch programme, Sergei Mashurov, vice-president of the Russian Air Launch corporation, told RIA Novosti in an interview on Friday.


Herm
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

Nope. Not involved in this one. The Russians do have quite
a few aircraft that are promising for space launch. These
include the Antonov An-22, the An-225, the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear,
the Tupolev Tu-160 Belyii Lebed (White Swan)/Blackjack (NATO).
Of course I'm not the only one to recognize the potential of
these aircraft for space launch. However, I am currently
convinced that our "kite-assisted SSTO" Space Van 2008 is the
best approach we have had to date.

Best regards,
Len (Cormier)
PanAero, Inc.
(change x to len)
http://www.tour2space.com