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(SteveM8597) wrote:

Thanks for the input, Dan. Our disucssion has been whether and how something
like the BRS could be made to work for a large airliner,

Problems would include velocity, attitude,
structual integrity, touchdown (to whit, bad experieces in F-111/B-1A capsule
touchdowns) and pilot vs automatically actuated.

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