Air plane crash

[X-Rated]

Link (http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120815/DEFREG02/308150004/USAF-Hypersonic-Aircraft-Fails-Flight-Test?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE)

Ooopsie.




The U.S. Air Force’s X-51 hypersonic test aircraft failed during its latest launch over the Pacific Ocean.

A B-52 bomber flying over the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center Sea successfully launched the X-51 — called the Waverider — in the late morning on Aug. 14, the Air Force said in an Aug. 15 statement. But 16 seconds later, “a fault was identified with one of the cruiser control fins.”

After being released by the B-52, a rocket boosts the X-51 before its scramjet, hypersonic engine kicks in. But once the rocket separated from the X-51 this week, testers were unable to control the Waverider due to the broken fin and the aircraft was lost.

“It is unfortunate that a problem with this subsystem caused a termination before we could light the Scramjet engine,” Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager for Air Force Research Laboratory, said in the statement. “All our data showed we had created the right conditions for engine ignition and we were very hopeful to meet our test objectives.”

Program officials are working to determine the cause of the failure.

The Air Force has not had problems with X-51 fins during the prior two test flights of the X-51. In May 2010, an X-51 flew for more than three minutes at Mach 4.88.

The X-51 is built by Boeing. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne makes the hypersonic engine.

[PA5COR]

Someone needs to wrinkle out a few faults me thinks...

[kf0rt]

Needs moar duct tape.

[PA5COR]

I have some spare wonderglue and self amalgamating tape spare if that helps? :mrgreen:

[W3WN]

Needs moar duct tape.Don't say that. CFA might sue to protect their trademark.

[KA9MOT]

They've tested 4 of these and lost 3........ 1 for 3..... I'm thinking allot of money just went boom! I mean if they want to throw money away.......

[kf0rt]

They've tested 4 of these and lost 3........ 1 for 3..... I'm thinking allot of money just went boom! I mean if they want to throw money away.......

Actually, I don't think the 4th one has been tested... yet.

[N2NH]

Back to the drawing board...

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/089/f/8/Dr__Forrester_Animated_Gif_by_Ellidegg.gif

[n2ize]

Developing and testing new aircraft was never easy. Failures have always been a large part of the process.

[K7SGJ]

Sounds like they could use a bit of technical assistance from the ham community. Just sayin....

[NQ6U]

The problem is all them darned no-code hams working for Yoyodyne Rocketdyne.

[kf0rt]

Sounds like they could use a bit of technical assistance from the ham community. Just sayin....

That ain't gonna buff out. :lol:

[X-Rated]

Sounds like they could use a bit of technical assistance from the ham community. Just sayin....

Exactly. They were all like, "Hey, let's launch this mofo." Then they say 16 seconds later, "Hey, let's test out the fin. Oh crap. It's broken."

[n2ize]

Sounds like they could use a bit of technical assistance from the ham community. Just sayin....

doubtfull

[N2NH]

Sure. They could use the services of some of those experts over at the Zed. Why they knows EVERYTHING.:snicker:

[n2ize]

Sure. They could use the services of some of those experts over at the Zed. Why they knows EVERYTHING.:snicker:

^^^^ +10000000000000000000000000000

[K7SGJ]

doubtfull

While it may be true that even the ham community may have failed, we all know that it would have been built from parts from various ham fests, and would have only cost around 17 dollars in research and construction, saving taxpayers billions. Of course, it wound not have been named "WaveRider", it would have been named something like "DaytonShowerless".

[PA5COR]

That project burned through 300 billion dollars already and has nothing to show for it.
Except a broken scramjet on the floor of the ocean that is.

Where is the cry out for all that spilled money that could help lots of other good causes?
Inquiring minds want to know....

[kf0rt]

That project burned through 300 billion dollars already and has nothing to show for it.
Except a broken scramjet on the floor of the ocean that is.

Where is the cry out for all that spilled money that could help lots of other good causes?
Inquiring minds want to know....


Million, not billion. ;)

[PA5COR]

Just one of these projects failing and falling on it's face costing lots of money.
You were correct, costs up to now 300 million wasted Dollars, and counting...

[NY3V]

Just one of these projects failing and falling on it's face costing lots of money.
You were correct, costs up to now 300 million wasted Dollars, and counting...

It keeps the poor Defense Contractors off welfare. ;)

[n2ize]

I wouldn't dismiss the project as failing or as a waste. What if we had that attitude when we were developing the space program. What if after one or two or three tries we said, "ah this don;t work, lets quit and save money" ? But we succeeded because we kept trying and we never gave up. Same as this. Like any project their are disappointments and failures. Some times lots of them. But, we are Americans, and the American spirit is to keep doing it until it succeeds. And damned it, we will succeed. That is what makes America great. We don;t quit, we don;t give up.

[KA9MOT]

I wouldn't dismiss the project as failing or as a waste. What if we had that attitude when we were developing the space program. What if after one or two or three tries we said, "ah this don;t work, lets quit and save money" ? But we succeeded because we kept trying and we never gave up. Same as this. Like any project their are disappointments and failures. Some times lots of them. But, we are Americans, and the American spirit is to keep doing it until it succeeds. And damned it, we will succeed. That is what makes America great. We don;t quit, we don;t give up.

I agree, but shouldn't we fix the F-22 first?

[PA5COR]

The first working pulsejet was patented in 1906 by Russian engineer V.V. Karavodin, who completed a working model in 1907.

They took their sweet time to get this far to fail...

[kb2vxa]

"The problem is all them darned no-code hams working for Yoyodyne Rocketdyne."

You can't mean Yoyodyne, Buckaroo Banzai does 200WPM on a custom made water cooled straight key. Well, maybe they work making after market parts for sport bikes in Morristown, N. J.

[n2ize]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fr00GjghnU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fr00GjghnU

Ya gotta luv it when it gets WHITE HOT !!!!