Re: [FYI] World's Longest page on tracks vs wheels

At 10:09 PM +0100 1/14/02, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>Well, the US could buy a stripped-down M2 for their mobile forces and
the
>right size transport aircraft to go with them - from Antonov or (the
future
>A 400) from Airbus.

If'n we'd just bought a whole bunch more C5-D's rather than that 
Boeing contraption we'd have heavy lift coming out of our ears.  I 
got a glimpse at that Bid specification at Lockmart years ago when 
working there. It was very interesting the ideas that Lockmart's 
engineers had come up with.
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