Re: American Attitudes

[Russell Chapman]

Charlie Bell wrote:

> > >
> > But being self-launched is that distinguishes an airplane
> > from a glider.
> > Alberto Monteiro
>
> Not at all. Unless an F-14 tomcat is a glider.
>
> Charlie

To be fair, the F-14 CAN take off by itself (there are precious few
catapults at NAS Oceana for example).
Conversely, given a long enough paved runway (eg NAS Oceana) the Wright
flyer might well have self launched.