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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
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Spaceship 2 is a brand new design. And it uses people at the controls. This one sounding like it was pilot error.
It does sound like an error; unless they were testing the stability of the feathering system, unlocked, in a trans-sonic state. (doubtful, perhaps)

the thing is, with those giant drag structures behind the main wing, I don't see how an unlock would be anything like Hard Drive's analogy of popping an unlatched hood at speed. ...it maybe would be like popping a trunk open at speed.

hmmm... perhaps the control surfaces on the 'feather' booms could over-power whatever motors drive those up and back again. I dunno. But I do expect that people at Scaled knew exactly what went wrong, and knew within hours.
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