Post: Cavalier Space Cowboys
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Posted Monday 12th January 2009 09:00 GMT
In Branson rocket piggyback plane has control 'issue' - report
Ask google how many people have died in Burt Rutan designed craft ('rutan accidents' = 46 dead in one type of Rutan aircraft alone - the VariEze.)
Remember, they won the xprize after only two non-fatal flights. However subsequent testing resulted in the deaths of 3 ground crew after a fuel explosion. The list of fallen grows and grows.
Personally, I'm in no rush to hop aboard SpaceCrash Two with Virgin IntheAtlantic for a ten-second sub-orbital spin which I have a less than 50-50 chance of surviving.
If Rutan was a drug, he'd be withdrawn from the market.
