Re: Rocket Planes; How Safe?

simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:59:05 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Jeff
Findley" <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Very likely so. 1 (fatal) failure in 10,000 flights should be an achievable
goal. By modern commercial aircraft standards that would be an unacceptable
failure rate, but not so by launch vehicle standards (or by early aviation
standards).

Bell is claiming one in fifty.

I would be disappointed by such a result - but unsurprised.

D.
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