Am 20 Nov 2003 20:38:05 -0800 schrieb "George William Herbert":

In a world where engines explode upon failure, having exactly
one engine per stage is best.

Engines actually rarely explode on failure; going back
through the history of flight failures shows almost exclusively
systems failure followed by shutdown, or accidental shutdown,
without any uncontained failure. It's not unknown but is a lot
rarer than 'graceful' shutdowns.

Ok, then search for "hard start" instead - that's the euphemism used
for engine explosion when it occurs on ignition. You will maybe
surprised to find a significant number of them...

cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker)
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