[Air-l] public domain?

[Charlie Hendricksen]

Ed,

    I'd certainly forget the SRB allusion.  There is no reason why the
boosters need to be shipped in pairs.  If they needed to be larger in
diameter, then they would have simply been shipped in tandem.  As for
the rest of the story, I've heard it from childhood, and of course it
makes sense.  Why change a winner?

    I wouldn't even quote it, with the SRB reference omitted, the
words are buried so far in the past that copyright has expired.

Ed Lamoureux wrote:
> 
> I suspect that most of you will recognize the narrative I'm going to paste
> in, below. I nabbed it off the web (someplace long forgotten)...and have
> seen it in a variety of forms over the years.
> 
> I'd like to print/us it in a book. Problem is, I don't know who/what to
> cite . . . or if I even need to cite anyone. At this point, I'm treating
> it as an "Internet Urban Legend" . . .
> 
> 1) is it?
> or
> 2) do you know its source/owner?
> 
> thanks folks
> ***

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