From: smize@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Samuel Mize)
Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure
Date: 1996/06/08
Date: 1996-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4pd540$rl2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31B84662.7930@lmtas.lmco.com
In article <31B84662.7930@lmtas.lmco.com>,
Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
>David Weller wrote:
>>
>> The "Delta Clipper" has done very well so far, with no disastrous
>> failures.
>
>Didn't DC-X have a pad fire?
As I recall from Aviation Leak, venting hydrogen built up under the
"skirt" around the engines. I *think* it happened in flight, and
they landed it. It may have been on the ground.
The working components were intact, and I believe it was flyable, but
they (sensibly) were going to check it over and replace the blown-out
skin panels before flying it again.
So, (1) it's a judgement call whether that was a "disastrous" failure,
and (2) it wasn't a software failure anyway.
But yes, they did have a fire.
Samuel Mize
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-06 0:00 ARIANE-5 Failure John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Tronche Ch. le pitre
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-07 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Samuel Mize [this message]
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Eugene W.P. Bingue
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` David Zink
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-18 0:00 ` 4GL code in a deliverable (was: ARIANE-5 Failure) Arthur Evans Jr
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-19 0:00 ` 4THGL code Warren Taylor
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Automatic code generation (was ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works)) Steve Vestal
1996-06-07 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Bert Peers
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Dewi Daniels
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jan Kok
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
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