Posted on 01/30/2008 11:08:12 AM PST by Freeport
You've got it. In the Space Shuttle, reentry without a belt under adverse circumstances can be fatal not only to oneself but to others including the pilot.
Are you sure that the return will not be that serious? Think of this with Storms and with some control failures. Think of everyday operation.
Believe me, aircraft designers do this every day with a new aircraft and the pilots have to go through simulations regularly with the worst of scenarios.
They do this in the hope that the they will be able to handle most situations and to AVOID LAWSUITS.
My Spidey Engineering Sense is Tingling.
Jurassic Park. When they pulled M16s off the wall I started laughing. Couldn’t stop for the rest of the movie.
What a joke of a movie. Now had they had 45-70s and 50 cals, it would have been a much better story.
Jurassic Park. When they pulled M16s off the wall I started laughing. Couldn’t stop for the rest of the movie.
What a joke of a movie. Now had they had 45-70s and 50 cals, it would have been a much better story.
It was just floating there in the screen.
Maybe it was.
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At $100,000 per ride, I doubt that a cabin full of millionaires are going to go "postal" during the jaunt.
It's not like a drunk salesman in business class who might get angry because the cabin crew cut him off, and start causing trouble because he can't get another Scotch and soda. And I doubt that some al Qaeda type will try to light his shoe at the apex of the flight.
I can agree with you there. Think of a cabin full of those same millionaires and the pilot performing a dead stick landing. (Just like the Shuttle, every landing in SpaceShipTwo is dead stick. One shot to get it right or else!)
I can't believe that even Lloyds of London would insure Virgin Galatic for that sort of liability!
http://www.galacticjourneys.com/?gclid=CIKDqtC-25QCFSQqagodJwkukQ
On Monday July 28th, 2008 the completed WhiteKnight 2 aircraft was unveiled to the public and the press by Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic.
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