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Re: Stopping streamliners

To: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Stopping streamliners
From: "landspeedracer" <landspeedracer@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:26:36 -0500
Chuck

Now this would be an eye popper.

John

>
>    If we can stop a 175,000 Lb. aircraft going 140 MPH on a 3500 foot
> airstrip we oughto be able to stop a 4000 Lb. streamliner going 400 MPH.
> It'd certainly be a good emergency stopping measure, and if it works well
> it could add a measure of safety to every streamliner run.  Guys like Dave
> and Mayf would have to work out the technical aspects of such a system
> to get things stopped with reasonable G-forces and hook loads, but the
> technology is already out there for aircraft, so we wouldn't be inventiing
> anything, just reinventing it.
>
>
> Chuck Rothfuss
> Pole Cat Hollow, NC
> 30 minutes from Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue.
> The Corps only airfield with arrested landing capability on the East
Coast.

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