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Virgin Galactic: Spaceship Encounters Inflight ‘Anomaly’ During Test Flight
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An aircraft used by Virgin Galactic for space travel experimentation encountered a problem Friday during testing, the company said. SpaceShipTwo, carried by WhiteKnightTwo, launched at 9:19 a.m. from a location in the Mojave Desert, according to officials from the company, which is owned by Sir Richard Branson. (losangeles.cbslocal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
An "anomaly" is when gauges give crazy readings or a system does not function as normal. A "CATASTROPHIC FAILURE" is when it blows up in mid-flight!!! We can not even report on an aircraft failure, with out putting "PC SPIN" on the results!
From OED:
noun (plural anomalies)
1 Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected:
One would hope that a catastrophic failure would be out of the ordinary.
Congressional failures of the catastrophic variety are, sadly, non-anomalous.
noun (plural anomalies)
1 Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected:
One would hope that a catastrophic failure would be out of the ordinary.
Congressional failures of the catastrophic variety are, sadly, non-anomalous.
Well, it obviously wasn't normal.
They call this an "anomaly"... Geez... They loose the spacecraft and one person dies.... I would hate to see what they call at Tragedy.
I don't know about the airline industry, but in the rocket / space industry, the term anomaly is used whenever anything unexpected occurs regardless of seriousness or lack thereof. Once an anomaly has been declared, of course the verbiage will change as answers unravel. Be realistic
НИ ВСЕ ВРУБАЮТСЯ О ЧЁМ РЕЧЬ НА АНГЛИЙСКОМ. ДЕЛАЙТЕ ПЕРЕВОД...
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