RE: Fighters and Hangers

At 3:27 PM -0600 2/26/04, Doug Evans wrote:
>  >But then on the other hand you can imagine a cradle that locks the
craft
>down and where robotic arms load >missiles and such onto hard points.
>
>Would you tend to see such cradles tend to be of relatively limited
>capacity variation? Fighter-sized vs Lander-size?

More like Fighter Model. Sorry, the Ark Royal Can't accept the MK III 
Stike Hawk because it hasn't received the new Mk17 NoIII cradles for 
the Strike Hawks...

>
>  >A military case in point for not having automated reloading - (...)
>
>There you go, assuming from current tech. I have faith! I KNOW that
>someday, engineering WILL be capable of banishing Murphy! *snicker*

When you get high tech, murphy get's high tech. Or in the words of Mr 
Scott, "the more complicated the plumbing gets, the easier it is to 
stop up the works."

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