Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashes...

Well, thats what happens with the progress of technology, boundaries are pushed and people die.

Not nice but lessons will be learnt and things improved.
 
Not good at at all, i have doubts if this project will ever get off the ground in terms of regular flights.

I would still book a few seats if i ever won a large amount though.
 
stulid said:
Well, thats what happens with the progress of technology, boundaries are pushed and people die.

Not nice but lessons will be learnt and things improved.
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I wonder how many test pilots died in the 40's and 50's pushing the envelope? That when aviation came on serious leaps and bounds
 
As people have already stated, To advance in the world you need to push boundary's. And sometimes they push back. Very sad to read had been following this for a while now. Hope the second pilot is returned to his family safe, feel terrible for the family of the man who lost his life.
 
Spook187 said:
Not good at at all, i have doubts if this project will ever get off the ground in terms of regular flights.

I would still book a few seats if i ever won a large amount though.
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did you ever hear about the early days of Jet engined public travel?

Britain led the way but had several huge disasters due to metal fatigue
 
robgmun said:
I wonder how many test pilots died in the 40's and 50's pushing the envelope? That when aviation came on serious leaps and bounds
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Indeed regularly watch docs about this imagine testing new prototype flying machines for a living and today it's much safer than back then just after the war when life was cheap....
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MacMiniBoy said:
did you ever hear about the early days of Jet engined public travel?

Britain led the way but had several huge disasters due to metal fatigue
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i think he means it wont get off the ground as its purely "fun".

aviation was a major thing for businesses and transport. going into space for an hour to take selfies and come back to the same airport though will never have the same drive behind it
 
We have so many fail-safe systems and means of testing that we didn't have back then though.

Granted if you're pushing the boundaries like this it's not always going to be something you can replicate in a lab or in computerised simulations, but it's a different world to the pioneers of the various infantile stages of flight and hard to compare.

I'm far from saying we shouldn't do it - man has an impulse to push oneself after all and we as a species are the better for it.
 
this_is_gav said:
We have so many fail-safe systems and means of testing that we didn't have back then though.

Granted if you're pushing the boundaries like this it's not always going to be something you can replicate in a lab or in computerised simulations, but it's a different world to the pioneers of the various infantile stages of flight and hard to compare.

I'm far from saying we shouldn't do it - man has an impulse to push oneself after all and we as a species are the better for it.
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sorry but once a plane especially a plane powered by a bloody rocket decides its gonna do something unexpected its uncontrollable.

we just had an fighter jet crash in afield a few weeks ago and thats a decades old proven design.


butstil more people die in a few months of car cashes than in years of plane testing.
 
What about the shuttle programme? And the Apollo programme?

They lost men and women too

Only thing different with this Is they have less experience than others, less money, and less of a meaning, travel to near space then back
 
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Tefal said:
sorry but once a plane especially a plane powered by a bloody rocket decides its gonna do something unexpected its uncontrollable.

we just had an fighter jet crash in afield a few weeks ago and thats a decades old proven design.


butstil more people die in a few months of car cashes than in years of plane testing.
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I didn't say otherwise. :rolleyes:
 
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