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Old April 5th 10, 03:19 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Sylvia Else
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On 4/04/2010 11:15 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 4/3/2010 6:55 AM, Neil Gerace wrote:

I don't know whether any airliners have escape systems for passengers
that can work while the plane is in the air. If this is so, I see no
reason for a passenger-carrying spacecraft to have them. Other than
politics.


The thing is, everyone seems to be thinking about it like a airliner or
a business jet.
It's nothing like those; it's a rocket-powered transatmospheric vehicle
that is air launched, flies faster than a SR-71, climbs out of and
reenters the atmosphere, and performs a glide landing.


And the SR-71 suffered many losses.

Sylvia.
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Old April 5th 10, 06:21 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default VSS Enterprise completes first flight under its carrier aircraft

On 4/4/2010 6:19 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 4/04/2010 11:15 AM, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 4/3/2010 6:55 AM, Neil Gerace wrote:

I don't know whether any airliners have escape systems for passengers
that can work while the plane is in the air. If this is so, I see no
reason for a passenger-carrying spacecraft to have them. Other than
politics.


The thing is, everyone seems to be thinking about it like a airliner or
a business jet.
It's nothing like those; it's a rocket-powered transatmospheric vehicle
that is air launched, flies faster than a SR-71, climbs out of and
reenters the atmosphere, and performs a glide landing.


And the SR-71 suffered many losses.


Actually considering the small number built, yes it did.
http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/srloss~1.htm
With 20 losses out of 50 Blackbirds of all types built, loss rate was 40%.

Pat
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Old April 5th 10, 10:03 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Rick Jones[_3_]
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In sci.space.history David Spain wrote:
If you go the compressed air route, you should take along some
cigarettes. If the leak is a slow one, (and assuming these are the
only kind that will be 'recoverable' from anyway) light 'em up when
you got a leak so you can find the hole and patch it.


Insufficiently zen! Bring incense - much more mellow. Or, if the
launch is from California, medicinal ganja...

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