On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:45:59 -0700, "Sander Pool"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Several seconds later it abruptly pitched ninety degrees and demonstrated
>unstable operation until finally transitioning into a ballistic terminal
>descent."
>
>They can't just write "it pitched over and crashed" :-)
No; the longer description more closely parallels what it looked like
in real time. "Pitched over and crashed," sounds abrupt, and this
flight went from good to worse over several seconds. It was almost -
but not quite - graceful.
--
"SEAL training is just like Ranger training, except
it's three weeks longer. It takes that long to teach
them how to balance the balls on their noses."
-- Doug Jones
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