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Posted by DexterBG on 6/29/2008, 2:22 am, in reply to "Found it, Dex!"
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: It's called "Starflight One: The Plane
: that Couldn't Land". It's from 1983,
: ran on ABC (just like "SST") and
: starred Lee Majors and Hal Linden. I saw it
: when it first ran, but haven't seen it
: since. I'll have to track it down for DBNS.
:
Yes it does. Maybe Cinematic Titanic will get the rights to it someday (or the Film Crew). As I remember it, it certianly deserves the MST3k "treatment". They really over sold the Space Shuttle readiness (recycle times) in that one. Relaunching in hours, rather than in months. Then there was the idea of using a returning Shuttle as a heat shield for the plane. But the plane had large enough wings, that it could glide back down without burning up. It certainly got up there without much problem. Only non-aerodynamic spacecraft have the need for heat shielding. It's a design tradeoff for building them smaller, to achieve orbit with less fuel. Let the riffing begin.
-Dex-
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