On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Randall Clague wrote:
> >The ghost of Max Hunter says you tested it too rigorously. :-)
> >(Several Thors failed due to excessive static testing before launch...
>
> You're kidding, right? Thor was an ELV. Armadillo's building an RLV.
Some of the same principles apply, and they show up elsewhere as well.
When something has a limited life, yes, you can use up its useful life in
testing and thus have it fail in flight. (Now, mind you, you may not
*know* it had a limited life, and you might not have *intended* it to have
a limited life, but those are different issues.) Even RLV components
often will have finite working lives; many aircraft components do, as
do most modern whole aircraft.
Henry Spencer
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