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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!aws
- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.141216.18166@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <By31np.F2q.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:12:16 GMT
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- In article <By31np.F2q.1@cs.cmu.edu> amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk writes:
- >> That means all it needs for the second launch is to be re-fueled.
-
- >Well, I'll pick a rather important nit: No pilot in their right mind
- >gets behind the wheel/stick without doing a careful walkaround
- >pre-flight.
-
- To quote Sir Gawain: 'I stand a fool and you a wise man proved'.
-
- >I expect that an operational DC1 vehicle will put the
- >pilot back into the loop in a way they never were or could be on the
- >Shuttle. With aviation style operations and complexity comes aviation
- >style checklists and hands on pilot responsibility. And a hearty amen
- >to that, brother.
-
- That's an important point. When the Shuttle was first going up,
- comentators called it 'the most complex vehicle ever built'. The
- problem was that they said it like it was a good thing. Complexity
- is NOT a good thing and its about time we realized it.
-
- Allen
-
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