"@Aaron Altman: The Intrepid (Voyager) is designed to land planet side and has landing gear for just that reason.
@wintersault: One or two ground based Tractor/Repulser beams could move a ship into orbit while staying comfortably inside cannon."
"@DocSeuss: Since the 264 never made it out of the prototype stage, I don't think it qualifies as "developed".
The Hinkle 177's range was less than half of the B-17's with a quarter of the bomb load and was nicknamed by the German's themselves as the"flying coffin".
I'm going to go ahead and disagree that either of these are valid."
"@SenorElChimpo: Thing is they all pull from the same pool of potential employee's so they all wind up being pretty much the same.
The quality of service you get when you walk in any retail store is more about the individual standing in front of you the company they represent."
"It was really wonky for me until I did a fresh install of Win 7 (was on RC1 so I think it was driver related) and it's worked like a champ ever since other than a couple of system crashes that were the result of overheating.
This is good news!"
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