OOPS! - Planelopnik Edition

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 03/10/2015 at 17:51 • Filed to: planelopnik

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On March 11, 1955, the third of thirteen X-10s, an unmanned technology demonstrator built by North American Aviation, exploded seconds after takeoff when the landing gear was raised. An investigation determined that the destruct package was wired to the landing gear circuit rather than the engine circuit. Oops.

Jcarr > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 17:54

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Haha, that's hilarious. Thank God it was unmanned.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 17:54

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WHAT?! All the wires look alike okay! Its not my fault!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 17:56

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HOW DOES WIRING
CANNOT INTO

E. Julius > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 18:00

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Wonder what happened to the guy responsible for that.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 18:01

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Somewhere, there is an assembly line worker who still knows how to wire something together and doesn't need instructions from some dumb egghead.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jcarr 03/10/2015 at 18:10

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I suppose that leaves the question open of how a manned vehicle's self-destruct would be triggered.

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 03/10/2015 at 18:10

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"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

-Lawrence Bell, Bell Aircraft

ttyymmnn > E. Julius 03/10/2015 at 18:11

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You mean that guy over there with the broom?

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 18:23

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"Area rule? That stupid baloney! No! We'll make it fat in the middle!"

Lawrence Bell, Bell Aircraft, Builders of the Bell X-1

whoarder is tellurium > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 19:14

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I think I know exactly how it went in the control room:

leicester > ttyymmnn 03/10/2015 at 20:31

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No, the OTHER red wire!

user314 > HammerheadFistpunch 03/10/2015 at 20:53

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Was it the green wire with white stripes, or the white wire with green stripes?

aimawayfromface3 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/10/2015 at 21:50

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On the U-2, I'm told, a small panel in the cockpit that requires you to lift a flap and then depress two buttons at the same time. It is set to a timer.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 03/11/2015 at 10:58

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EDIT: Must have be a cyclist doing the wiring that day.

thatguy > For Sweden 03/19/2015 at 21:55

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heh good one.

but really

The Bell X-1 was built before the era of 'area ruling' aircraft. they chose the 50 caliber body shape because they knew it was inherently stable during supersonic flight. which was the real purpose of the X-1 (developing stability and control for trans-sonic and supersonic flight regimes).