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SpaceshipOne's Control Problem Fixed
Baldrson writes "Wired News reports that Rutan's team says they have gotten to the bottom of the June 21 flight anomalies that affected the first SpaceShipOne sub-orbital flight: 1) A control surface actuator had run against a stop limiting its movement, and 2) Wind shear caused the 90-degree roll shortly after rocket ignition. Rutan also said with the problems now identified, the next time SpaceShipOne flies, it will be to win the prize."
MY spaceship wasn't affected by wind shear.
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No, not first, but it gets list somewhere I'm shure. At least for any craft that has to deal with atmosphere.
Me first thing I worry about is the Huge laser cannons and force shields. That and a seat for cute blue space chick.
Maybe this is why NASA hasn't called back.
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"1) A control surface actuator had run against a stop limiting its movement, and 2) Wind shear caused the 90-degree roll shortly after rocket ignition. Rutan also said with the problems now identified, the next time SpaceShipOne flies, it will be to win the prize."
So I guess it's:
1. Fix control surface actuator
2. Fix wind shear problem
3. Profit!
His luggage lands in Africa somewhere...
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Rutan probably had to change the dial from "10" to "11"
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
That and a seat for cute blue space chick.
I thought that smurfs live on the earth.
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As a wise man once wrote, the soul will still be travelling at the speed of an Arcturan megadonkey.
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I think this has great potential with the overweight 'epidemic' happening in the developed world as well. Instead of counting calories, Atkins, Hershey's Syrup & mashed potato diet, etc., we can ship the fat people to the moon or other low gravity settlement and they can live like Baron Harkonnen from Dune.
Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception
I remember an Air Force F-15 pilot telling my father a couple stories about training fighter pilots in some Islamic Persian Gulf state (dunno - I was only 8 years old then). He said the students had an alarming habit of reacting to control difficulties during training flights by letting go of the stick, throwing their arms in the air and shouting "Allahu Akbar". This reaction worked when the trouble was PIO, but he frequently had to take control because the students would simply let go and trust Allah to fly the plane out of trouble for them! One time, shortly before returning to the US, the training aircraft suffered some sort of serious failure and the student pilot shouted "Allahu Akbar" repeatedly as the plane spun out of control. He (the instructor) yelled at him to eject, but he just kept saying "Allahu Akbar". So the instructor ejected and landed without serious injury, while the student rode the plane all the way into the ground.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.