RE: Fighters

At 7:44 AM -0400 5/14/02, Warren Shultzaberger wrote:
>  > >
>>  >If fighters had the legs to go gallivanting around the
>>  >star system on their own, you:
>>  >
>>  >1)Wouldn't EVER see carriers actually on the field.
>>
>>  I can (were I a pilot) fly an F15 to England from Atlanta. I could
>>  even do it with ordinance.
>
>The range of any fighter is based on something more practical... The
>pilot's bladder.

Hence my statement about endurance. I was speaking about the pilot's 
endurance. I find the same sort of issue when driving my Honda 
Insight across country. It gets better gas milage than I can contend