Re: GEVs

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Roger Books wrote:

> The size really isn't relevant, it's the mass/surface area that
counts.

Perhaps my terminology is imprecise. Size speaks to the mass/surface 
area. The LCAC is much larger than an M1 much wider and longer. Its got
a 
bunch o' big gas turbines (tm) and thus has the thrust to put air under 
that big/wide skirt and lift that M1 or LCAC full of marines. 

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