On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:29:48 +0200, Francois Labreque  

<fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:


>> On 6-11-2014 17:58, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>
>>> They should be sentenced to flying the next Virgin Galactic flight.
>>>
>> Too good for them. Tethered to the feathering device at the least :-)

>>
>> Sadly enough, vanguard projects like Virgin or Apollo /need/(?) a
>> catastrophe from time to time to pinpoint weak spots in the design an
d -
>> ultimately - make the end result better and safer. I have deep respec
t
>> for the test pilots indeed.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
> Agreed. While all loss of life is tragic, it's better that these  

> problems were found in testing rather than during a commercial flight.

>

Agreed. I fully support them. I would love to be able to go on a Virgin 
 

Galactic flight one day.

I think it would be really interesting to have test pilots consisting  

solely of moon landing conspiracy theorists :)

-- 

-Nekar Xenos-

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