Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: weinss@rpi.edu (Stephen Andrew Weinstein) Subject: Re: Hysterical movie goof X-Submission-Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:28:11 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <+-j2lnh@rpi.edu> Date: 13 Dec 92 18:07:14 PST At one time (i.e. 1st half of 20th century ?), it was common for people flying between places without regular comercial airline service to hitch rides with either cargo or military planes. Scientists going to Antartica still do this and reporters needing local transportation in Vietnam when roads were closed did during the war there. (In 'Nam, helicopters were more common though because it was too expensive to build a runway that might get blown up.) Stephen Weinstein weinss@rpi.edu I will be away from the net and e-mail 12/17-1/10. If more college students voted (and could afford lobbyists), there would be more financial aid.