Re:For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance
by Aqua_Geek on Friday October 29, 2010 @06:32PM
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I think the length of runway required to get a 747 off the ground would make this prohibitive (as if the cost of an aircraft carrier didn't already). Nimitz class carriers are just over 1,000 ft in length. A quick Google search reveals that a 747 needs about 6x that for safe takeoff/landing.
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Re:For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance
by meelash on Friday October 29, 2010 @06:38PM
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Yeah, turns out the cost is also more than an order of magnitude- an aircraft carrier is somewhere in the high single digit billions of dollars, where as your jumbo jet is in the hundreds of millions....