“Because lawyers and huge contingency fees, period (I used to work at a large law office; money was far more important than justice).”
Old legal maxim: There are few grave legal questions in an estate with no money.
The last I looked into it, the per-hour fatal accident rate for flight training for helicopters was about double that for fixed wing. Most of those accidents were during autorotation practice. The data is from before the Cabri G2 became popular so it will largely be from Robinson R22s.
I don’t have data for helicopter use in general, but the risk is so dependent on what operation you’re doing that you’d want to be really careful about what conclusions you try and draw from any data.
The “Bard of Avon”?
Find in all in the latest AOPA ASI Nall report.
Looks like they had a perfect flight.
Elon Musk is chipping in $50m for St.Jude as well, so $200m total.
Can someone tell me what the “pilot” duties were during this flight?
NOW we’re getting somewhere.
The suborbital flights are a step but getting real people (albeit wealthy, or subsidized) into orbit is an exciting advancement. I’m surprised there didn’t seem to be as much media hype leading up to this one as there was for the previous sub-orbitals.
Finally it looks like we might actually be becoming a spacefaring species. Very cool.
Surprised there were not more “sour grapes” comments from various government agencies, although there were several snide media comments probably as a result of interviews with government weenies. Remember the Alien movie series where it was private enterprise who were doing all the space work being run by corporations with evil for-profit motives? But then again we do have Boeing so it is obvious that private enterprise can also screw things up in space.
Kudos to Space X. Agree… when private parties can successfully launch w/ passengers (and non-astrnt 'pilot) & recover w/no issues it’s a large and impressive step for both AI and for spave programs (public & private). Yes, I am impressed.
To monitor the actions of the commander, whose job is to monitor the progress of the computer.