The X-5 Waverider disintegrated in mid-air, 15 seconds after liftoff from the carrier plane
A critical test for the Air Force's Mach 5 experimental aircraft has failed. This is reported by the WIRED website from officials in the US Air Force. If this is indeed the case, this is the third time that this plane or perhaps a cruise missile has failed, and there is a fear of canceling the project due to this failure.
According to reports, the X-5 Waverider's navigation fin failed and prevented the missile's jet engine from starting. The Air Force later admitted the failure in a press release.
A source who was present at the test said that a problem with the missile's fin caused the loss of control before the engine could operate. The jet engine was supposed to propel the missile to supersonic speed for 300 seconds. The malfunction occurred 16 seconds after launch.
15 seconds later, after the missile separated from the launcher that accelerated it to the speed from which the jet engine was supposed to carry the plane, it disintegrated.
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My father's mistake - the name is X51 and not X5
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/395/376.html?hp=1&cat=666&loc=10
There are those who claim that the experiment failed and there are those who claim that the experiment was successful.
The press paints reality in the colors it wants.
The name of the project knocked him out
X fifty one = bad trick = 598
But there is hope
X fifty-two = a blind man invents a correct solution = 1335
I mean all they have to do is put some blind engineers into the project.
Why didn't they ask the rabbi of Nasa if Hashem is OK...
Nowadays, when everything is calculated and simulations are conducted that take into account every little detail, it only illustrates how complex and sensitive the task is to changes of various kinds (or how irresponsible those responsible were - and this can also have many possibilities, when the first factor I can think of is someone's ego. Almost There is always someone like that who does not know how to control his ego, and it almost always results in complete or partial failure.)
Tried to contact you! But you were not available!!!
Too bad they didn't ask me. I immediately saw that there was a problem with the stabilizer and it could fail, and of course you can't fly like that with a faulty stabilizer. I could have saved them a lot of money but they were eager to launch
It's lucky that no one was hurt, the plane really didn't fail, it's just a malfunction, it's not a failure
Why be so negative?
The experiment did not fail. The plane just crashed a little before time, that's all!
That's why there are experiments, luckily no one was hurt