in 'defense' of FT missiles... ;-)

I'm sure many of you have seen this before. But as I was digging around
in the massive backlog of mail I have sitting off to the side, I found
it again and it kinda vaguely applies to the current thoughts about
missiles in FT being able to turn on/off...or not. And thought I'd share
it with y'all.

Enjoy!

Mk
(ps, gotta love the reference - however unintended - to FT at the end
;-)

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>This isn't exactly in the spirit of the group, but I had to post this
>somewhere.  I suppose my excuse could be that I want to make sure
>nobody else tries it.	I don't know where it's from originally, but
>it came to me via "a reliable source":
> 
> 
>    The Arizona (U.S.) Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering
>    metal imbedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road, 
>    at the apex of a curve. 
> 
>    The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a 
>    car.  The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene. 
>    
>    The boys in the lab finally figured out what it was, and what had
>    happened. 
> 
>    It seems that a guy had somehow got hold of a JATO unit, (Jet 
>    Assisted Take Off, actually a solid-fuel rocket) that is used to
give
>    heavy military transport planes an extra `push' for taking off from

>    short airfields.  He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the
desert, 
>    and found a long, straight stretch of road.  Then he attached the
JATO 
>    unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed, and fired off the
JATO!! 
> 
>    Best as they could determine, he was doing somewhere between 250
and 
>    300 mph (350-420kph) when he came to that curve.... 
>    The brakes were completely burned away, apparently from trying to 
>    slow the car.
> 
>    MORAL:
> 
>    Solid-fuel rockets don't have an 'off'... once started, they burn
at 
>    full thrust 'till the fuel is all gone.