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To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7717)	11/27/2006 1:47:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12246

Government departments at work = that's why you can't tow aircraft. While it's expensive to push aircraft around on the ground with jet engines, it's not as expensive as all the drama which would be needed to pull them with tow-wagons. Imagine it! There would be whole jamborees of people wanting to clip the ticket before it could happen. While it's nice to save fuel, and save the world and the polar bears from the greenhouse effect, it's probably easier to continue with the old way of doing things than take on the vast "Can't be too safe you know, and don't forget terrorism" authoritarians "looking after" We the Sheeple. In 1984, I attended a management training course during which we did a project on the department of civil aviation in NZ. I would NOT want to get such a thing past that pack of bureaucratic bunglers with the imagination of a brick. Burn the fuel! The most such people contribute to solving problems is that they might stop doing something really stupid, and obstructive to those trying to improve things; after a LOT of agonizing, cost, and of course, taking a longgggg time. I guess you mean Richard Branson [not Branston]? But in fairness to the anti-towing idea, there's a lot of cost to mucking around hooking up and unhooking tow wagons, plus buying them, staffing them. There's a tendency to ignore the value of time to passengers. They would need to be fast towing systems - an aircraft full of people is extremely valuable. If the idea got going, the bureaucrats would make it compulsory, using some really slow and expensive system which would probably also be dangerous. Mqurice