At 07:00 PM 11/16/2002 +0000, Ian Woollard wrote:
As an example, Chuck Yeager once got into an unrecoverable spin when he lost some of his HTP thrusters during reentry from high altitude. I don't know what caused that- actually the comments I saw indicated Chuck didn't know either- but it's not unlikely that it was an electrical problem; and electrical issues are often sensitive to vibration, and can be discovered in such testing.
The story I heard about that accident was that the zoom climb was off for some reason, so the apogee was too low. As a result, the air was sufficiently thick as to make it impossible for the thrusters to get the nose down in time, and therefore the aircraft went into a flat spin.
-p
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