[FPSPACE] Scaled Composites Explosion

[Chris Faranetta]

You are quick to judge the dead from your armchair and don't try to make
levity of the situation.

CF

-----Original Message-----
From: fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org
[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of E.P. Grondine
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 3:14 PM
To: FPSPACE at friends-partners.org
Subject: [FPSPACE] Scaled Composites Explosion

Well now, there's a news flash for you: rocket engines sometimes
epxplode 
while being tested.

How Scaled Composites engineers could have forgotten this fundamental 
principle, one which the German amateurs acquired with the death of
Vallier 
and the explosions of the 1920's, is a great question.

I'm sure it will be discussed in full during the trials to determine
damages 
and money payments.

Who all was killed, and what their engineering specialties were, is
likely 
to impact Scaled Composites' operations.

For certain, the local New Mexico facilities operators are going to
review 
their regulations.

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