On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 09:26:28AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >The difference between them being, of course, that there are far fewer >NASA shuttle launches than Boeing 777 airliner flights. That means >that NASA's fixed overheads (for e.g. infrastructure and skilled >personnel) must be divided between far fewer maintenance runs, making >them much higher per run.
Also that the "maintenance" on a shuttle involves giving the engines a full strip and rebuild, much like the early jet engines - not something one would expect for a more mature technology. R _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
