28 Feb
2001
28 Feb
'01
11:39 p.m.
At 08:16 PM 2/28/01 -0800, you wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Michael Nadeau wrote:
And I was watching Star Trek the other night, the "Nomad" episode.
The network was placing snippets on the screen ala Pop-up Videos,
and they claimed "Nomad" was originally named "Altair" in an
early script.
- John
Another reference identifies Yates as a former
Air Force officer with an
aeronautical engineering background:
http://ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net/reiman/03_1998.html
An interesting thing about this article is that it says the first
prototype of the Altair, the one that was allegedly lost in shipment,
"arrived a year later".