Ejector seats would work for a challenger stage accident. The first shuttle with only 2 pilots on board did have aircraft style ejector seats. The problem comes when you have a crew of 7 on two levels - you could have…
This was the system where after the craft explodes and is falling to earth at mach2 - you jettison a hatch, extend a boom, put on safety harness, clip the harness to the boom and slide out to then end (to clear the…
It's zero maintenance. For 'serious' bike riders who care about efficiency and clean/oil chains it's useless. For riders who use the bike for one week/year, put it away when it rains and never touch it otherwise it's…
Zero. Remember there is no need to make an accident survivable because an accident can't happen "Failure is not an option" and lots of other macho chest beating. If the Titanic had been built by Nasa it would have had…
the difficulty isn't just making this accident survivable, it's making any other accident at any other stage of the flight survivable. So any escape system that would work for the specific Challenger failure -…
As someone else has said making an ejection system that could resuce the crew at each stage of the flight is very difficult. What's more troubling (although not surprising) is Nasa's 'news management' in keeping this a…
Ejector seats would work for a challenger stage accident. The first shuttle with only 2 pilots on board did have aircraft style ejector seats. The problem comes when you have a crew of 7 on two levels - you could have…
This was the system where after the craft explodes and is falling to earth at mach2 - you jettison a hatch, extend a boom, put on safety harness, clip the harness to the boom and slide out to then end (to clear the…
It's zero maintenance. For 'serious' bike riders who care about efficiency and clean/oil chains it's useless. For riders who use the bike for one week/year, put it away when it rains and never touch it otherwise it's…
Zero. Remember there is no need to make an accident survivable because an accident can't happen "Failure is not an option" and lots of other macho chest beating. If the Titanic had been built by Nasa it would have had…
the difficulty isn't just making this accident survivable, it's making any other accident at any other stage of the flight survivable. So any escape system that would work for the specific Challenger failure -…
As someone else has said making an ejection system that could resuce the crew at each stage of the flight is very difficult. What's more troubling (although not surprising) is Nasa's 'news management' in keeping this a…