Damon Hill wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote in
dakotatelephone:



It will bring back real excitement to a rocket launch, as the public
can cower in foxholes and watch it through those cheap cardboard
periscopes like they sold when we were kids. :-D


Gives "INCOMING!!" a whole new emphasis, eh?

Wonder if the flight termination system can be rigged to go off
automatically if it loses integrity. False positives could be a
problem...


A "safety" system that if it suffers failure, blows up the vehicle?
That makes even the N-1's KORD system almost make sense. :-D
Sort of like a ejection seat that can go off all on its own if it
detects the aircraft isn't working right, like the Soviets used on the
Yak-38 "Forger" VTOL aircraft.

Pat