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This is a link post Video footage from the SpaceShipTwo crash last year
It cuts out just before it breaks up, but the snap up at 36s gives you some idea how it went so badly wrong.
(I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 15:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post That looks flimsy.
It's like it's been asked to perform way over it's stress levels. It just gives up.
 (I helped save b3ta! NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 15:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post It gives up
because the co-pilot removed the lock holding it in place far too soon. The actuators don't have the strength to hold it in place during the boost phase so there's a Bloody Big Lock to do that job.

For reasons unknown, the co-pilot disengaged that lock while they were still boosting.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 15:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Shit design innit?
why would you ever want to disengage the lock while boosting, seeing as it would make that happen?
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 16:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Probably just messing about with it, wondering what that bit did.

(pissflaps. FSPW, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 16:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah
I didn't know you used to be a test pilot.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 16:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post You don't actually think that they'd get real pilots to agree to go up in that thing do you?!

(pissflaps. FSPW, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 17:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Virgin, Germanwings
The confusion is understandable.
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 17:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Some practical joker had wrote "pull for sweeties" on it.

(I helped save b3ta! Pig Bodine., Wed 29 Jul 2015, 17:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wasn't that pissflaps' defence in his playground indecent exposure case?

(I helped save b3ta! wakeupandsmellthebacon, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 17:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post pffffff

(Jimbotfu Bummed in the gob again, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 22:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post There is a great story from the late 80's
About a pilot who 'accidentally' ejected from an F4 over the North Sea.

In his report he wrote that he "...was trying to change the radio station..."
 (I helped save b3ta! zacherynuk @echo off, Wed 29 Jul 2015, 20:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Aaaaah, so someone pushed/pulled/activated something they shouldn't have?
No system in place to make that impossible? If this thing was destined for 'space' travel I'd have thought every single thing would have procedure locks and processes to make sure it can't be done in the wrong order or at the wrong time. Doesn't inspire confidence does it?
 (I helped save b3ta! NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 15:05, , Reply)