What's the betting that in spite of the spin there are more improvements and changes on this than they are admitting too.
Moses added that there are other, unspecified changes to the vehicle as a result of the accident. “We used the lens of that accident to look at everything else we do, in manufacturing, in ground processing, in servicing the vehicle and in flying the vehicle,” he said. “We looked at systems way beyond what the scope of the accident investigation asked us to look at.”
Quote from: Star One on 02/20/2016 08:26 amWhat's the betting that in spite of the spin there are more improvements and changes on this than they are admitting too.That'd be difficult, since they're claiming they changed a lot. To pull a quote from the SpaceNews article:Quote from: Jeff FoustMoses added that there are other, unspecified changes to the vehicle as a result of the accident. “We used the lens of that accident to look at everything else we do, in manufacturing, in ground processing, in servicing the vehicle and in flying the vehicle,” he said. “We looked at systems way beyond what the scope of the accident investigation asked us to look at.”
That's the first time I've seen that quote, so thanks for that. Good that they've improved things just a shame that it could be said it cost a man his life to do so.
Quote from: Star One on 02/20/2016 02:31 pmThat's the first time I've seen that quote, so thanks for that. Good that they've improved things just a shame that it could be said it cost a man his life to do so.I recently watched "The Right Stuff" again. When you see the pictures of all the pilots who lost their lives in the bar in Mojave you know that this wasn't the first time someone lost their life for advances in aerospace and it won't be the last. Hopefully it will remain an increasingly rare occurrence.
Promotional video starring Malala YousafzaiMy pillows are less fluffier than this
It seems that SS2 now has a skid at the front.
The devil is in the details. Was building virtually a carbon copy of the first ship a wise move? Or does the new ship incorporate some of the same flaws that Scaled built into it?Are they going to flight test the shit out of it? Or are they pursuing a shorted powered flight test program along the lines of reckless program they had planned before the first ship went down?Everyone said all the right things on Friday. But, they said the same things about safety before the crash. It was more rhetorical than real.
The accident was blamed on pilot error and oversights by Northrop Grumman Corp's Scaled Composites division, which designed, built and tested the first vehicle, known as SpaceShipTwo.Virgin Galactic's own manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, already was well into construction of the second SpaceShipTwo of the fleet when the accident occurred.