On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:56:57 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

> 
> I particularly liked the burning of an o-ring seal 1/3 of the way through
> (for basically unknown reasons) described as a 3:1 safety factor.

Good Grief!  I suppose they could say the same thing of the 737 that landed on Wednesday with the nose-gear at 
90 degrees to the designed angle - two of the three undercarriage legs were working fine!  :-)

> That's the sort of garbage you'd expect from marketdroids, not rocket
> scientists.

I get the feeling from reading about Challenger, that a lot of the management involved were much more worried 
about their image (and blame-shifting) than about technology or even safety!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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