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From: emory!Dixie.Com!stan@gatech.edu (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Where was the B-1 ?????
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Date: 18 Mar 91 00:49:09 GMT
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From: emory!Dixie.Com!stan@gatech.edu (Stan Brown)

newave!john@uunet.UU.NET (John A. Weeks III) writes:

>I discussed some of the B-1 teething problems in another posting.  What
>I want to present here is a short list of problems in other airplane
>development programs:

>X-1, X-2 - Loss of 4 vehicles, some crew, and one carrier aircraft
>due to a chemical in a gasket that was explosive when in contact with LOX.

	I hadn't heard of this could you tell us more about it?

>P-38 - First prototype lost while trying to set a speed record.  The
>Lightning also suffered from a problem called "compressability", which
>never was fixed.  The P-38 was required for the war and could not sit out
>waiting for a relatively minor problem to be sorted out.

	I thought this problem was simply that they wer going transonic &
	like all WW2 plane had no real areodynamic prior art to base 
	pushing th sound barrier on 


>The point of this list, taken from memory, is that all aircraft projects
>have problems.  If it were easy, everybody would be an expert and every

	BTW another caniadte for this list would be SR-71' with the unstar problem.



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