"raden" wrote
| In message , Owain writes
| Presumably there must be a similar mechanism on rockets to ignite
| them? I can't see NASA sending out for some two-furra-pound gas
| lighters every time they want to do a launch.
| Didn't another thread degenerate into exactly the same discussion
| last week ?

I posted that last week (Wed 22/9/04). Perhaps the Internet magic string is
soggy in places.

Owain