I remember reading somewhere that one of the test-pilots reported the ATV
was a nightmare to fly.

"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:26:53 -0600, in a place far, far away, Joe
Strout made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

In article ,
(Rusty B) wrote:

I found a website that has a series of pictures showing an attempt
to move the Roton Rocket to a San Diego museum by cargo helicopter.

There are 72 pictures. The event took place in May 2003.

Hmm... couldn't they have just flown it (stopping frequently for
refueling, I'm sure)?

Very frequently. It's theoretically possible, but the logistics would
be crazy, and the probability of a mishap would approach unity by the
time it got all the way.