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Forum: Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by 328KF on 10-06-2011 08:50 AM SpaceShipTwo is flying again, following some modifications. Apparently the craft experienced an unintentional stall of the the tails right after separation. <BLOCKQUOTE>Flight: 73 / GF16 Date: 29 Sep 11 Flight Time: 7 min, 15 sec SS2 Pilot: Stucky SS2 CoPilot: Nichols SS2 FTE: Persall GS Crew: Alsbury, Verderame, Kalogiannis, Vannoy, Glasser, Reid, Inks, Tighe, Bassett Objectives: Post maintenance functional check flight Clean release Evaluate stability and control Flutter expansion Previous flutter point validation Increased weight landing (using water ballast) Pilot proficiency Results: Test card called for releasing the Spaceship from WhiteKnightTwo and immediately entering a rapid descent. Upon release, the Spaceship experienced a downward pitch rate that caused a stall of the tails. The crew followed procedure, selecting the feather mode to revert to a benign condition. The crew then defeathered and had a nominal return to base. Great flying by the team and good demo of feather system.</BLOCKQUOTE> This is flight test, and things do go wrong and schedules have been getting repeatedly "pushed to the right," as they say. Apparently one of the founding investors has had enough of the delays, and at age 75, has [URL=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/10/04/exasperated-virgin-galactic-space-tourism-founder-packs-it-in/]given up[/URL] his chance of flying in space.
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