Thanks, Terry. I should've known. :-) Here's an off-list note I got from a ex-NASA- ex-Vortex-l member: ............................................................................ ..... " On your last post - Harry Stine has been around for decades - I think he may even have worked at White Sands around the time I was there for 6 months in 1957/1958. I seem to recall the WS guys talking about him. His ICBM notes you sent are really interesting!" ............................................................................ ........ In retrospect, after reading about Dr. Ernst Steinhoff's "Wiring Problems" outlined on G. Harry Stine's book, ICBMs:
http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/booknotes/booknotes-icbm.html "Pg. 113-114 On May 29, 1947, a V-2 with a guidance system designed by Dr. Ernst Steinhoff (who had guided the ill-fated German V-2 that had landed in Sweden and wound up in England for study) literally was wired up with wires crossed, and instead of heading up the range to the north, headed south, landing in a cemetary on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, almost causing an international incident. The US Army arrived a couple of hours later, "enterprising Mexicans were selling any old piece of scrap metal they could find and claiming it was V-2 debris." No further launchers were made until proper range-safety procedures were developed." I'm glad he didn't hire me when I applied for a job there working on the SCR 584 Radar (3 years military & civilian experience) in the fall of 1954. I got in a few years of college, plus ( OJT ) and 15 years of R&D and three patents at Sandia Labs instead. :-) Frederick > > From: Terry Blanton > > > From: "Frederick Sparber" > > > Good deal, Terry. Who is Burt? I'm a bit fuzzy this morning. :-) > > Oh, sorry. I have a two hour head start on you here. > > I was speaking of Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites whose White Knight jet carried Spaceship One into "space" winning the X-Prize. > > He just announced a venture, Virgin Galactic, with Virgin Airlines's Sir Richard Branson to cart folks into space for $100k ticket. > > http://www.scaled.com/news/2005-07-27_branson_rutan_spaceship_company.htm > > >> "Wanna take a ride?" > > S.R. Hadden (John Hurt) "Contact" > > http://www.turning-pages.com/contact/journey.htm
