Re: Griffin Wants Inline SDLV and 5 Segment SRB/CEV

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:35:33 GMT, Scott Lowther
<scottlowther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Aircraft developed during WWII were also "cost is no object"
>technologies. And yet, derivatives of the B-17 and B-29 became
>economical passenger liners,

No, not really. Douglas DC-4 and Lockheed Constellation, the premier
post-war airliners, were both pre-war designs. DC-6 and DC-7 were
improvements on the DC-4 and owed little to wartime designs. Boeing
didn't sell many of its B-29-descended Stratocruiser airliners.

Brian



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