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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]
НИ ВСЕ ВРУБАЮТСЯ О ЧЁМ РЕЧЬ НА АНГЛИЙСКОМ. ДЕЛАЙТЕ ПЕРЕВОД...
Feels like 'anomaly' is the the wrong adjective to use...
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.
Update from NTSB on CBS this morning said that Co-pilot unlocked FEATHERS while still accelerating and aerodynamic forces took them on up to fully deployed position.