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Accident at Scaled Composites - 7/27/2007 2:14:03 AM   
saramos



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Status: offline 		Two people were killed and 4 others injured in an explosion today at about 2:45. Burt Rutan was not at the site when an explosion occurred at a rocket test site.

Here's a link to an AP report

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AIRPORT_EXPLOSION?SITE=MAHYC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

My condolences

Scott
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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 7/27/2007 2:24:18 AM   
SPLIT S



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Status: offline 		Do we know if it was actually at Scaled or somewhere at the airport?

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 7/27/2007 2:30:20 AM   
saramos



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Status: offline 		Yes, it was at a test owned by Scaled Composites where they performing a rocket engine test when it exploded. The site was destroyed including knocking over a couple of large trucks, one being a tanker truck.

Here's another link to the story.
http://www.knbc.com/news/13764132/detail.html

Scott


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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 7/27/2007 2:35:36 AM   
SPLIT S



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Status: offline 		My condolances to the families. Pushing the frontier can unfortunately have a high price.

Respectfully,
Dan

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 7/27/2007 4:17:00 AM   
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The Wrights never crashed, they only had hard landings. I 've had some hard landings myself. AMA EAA AOPA revver #185

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 7/27/2007 6:10:51 AM   
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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 7/30/2007 3:39:06 PM   
pbunn



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Status: offline 		It appears that they were running a cold flow test of nitrous through the motor injectors with no fuel. This was considered safe but the air temperature at the test site was very hot and it appears to be a nitrous pressure vessel failure. There is a lot to be learned with hybrid motor technology. Three people were killed as another died at the hospital.

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 8/5/2007 11:45:58 AM   
longdan



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Status: offline 		This is the first I heard of it through this thread.
If it had happened during re-entry, it would have made front page headlines world-wide, even though the tradgedy is still the same.

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 8/5/2007 12:46:21 PM   
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You are absolutely correct in your assesment. However the American news media requires "Spectacular" disasters for their news coverage, they sell more advertising space. Industrial disasters do not.

Ed S

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 8/5/2007 3:17:53 PM   
saramos



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Status: offline 		Coverage was mostly local news here in Los Angeles.

Scott

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 8/5/2007 6:43:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		this is the first I heard of this also shame on the news agencies for not reporting news

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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 8/5/2007 8:42:02 PM   
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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 8/7/2007 10:00:18 PM   
old git


 

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ORIGINAL: aerowoof

this is the first I heard of this also shame on the news agencies for not reporting news



A full page article with pictures appeared in the Guardian (UK Broadsheet) on 28th July, accurately describing the events and possible consequences financially.




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RE: Accident at Scaled Composites - 8/8/2007 4:52:22 AM   
4*60


 

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Status: offline 		Trying to mess with Branson/Virgin I guess. Here we don't have our celebrities involved I guess.

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