From: alain245@videotron.ca   
      
   On Jan/4/2021 at 07:30, Jeff Findley wrote :   
   > In article ,   
   > jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca says...   
   >>   
   >> On 2021-01-03 09:03, Jeff Findley wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> This is idle speculation.  Keep in mind that SpaceX designed and built   
   >>> Falcon and Falcon Heavy in recent times, so they have relevant   
   >>> experience building and flying orbital class launch vehicles.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Hughes Aircraft corporation also had a lot of experience building   
   >> planes, and it built the Spruce Goose.  At one point, realised it   
   >> woudlnt be great, but still fibnished it so Howard Highes could fly it   
   >> once to declare the equivalent of "mission accomplished".   
   >   
   > It was a giant plane made out of wood.  Starship is made of stainless   
   > steel, the same material used in the original Atlas ICBM/launch vehicle.   
      
   True, but you can also turn that around. The Spruce Goose was made out   
   of wood, the same material used in the original Éole (or the original   
   Wright Flyer). If you use the same material as the original, but in a   
   ship much bigger, you can run into trouble.   
      
   I agree with your overall point. I just think that this particular   
   argument is feeble.   
      
      
   Alain Fournier   
      
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