The X-17 Project – No Risk Management and Few Legal ... - AIAA Info
The X-17 Project – No Risk Management and Few Legal ... - AIAA Info
The X-17 Project – No Risk Management and Few Legal ... - AIAA Info
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Conclusion<br />
• We implemented changes in the inter-stage configuration, nose cone<br />
thickness, nose cone shape, <strong>and</strong> surface flaws without any delays to study<br />
risk or legal implications<br />
• Today these changes might take months or years to implement instead of<br />
days. <strong>No</strong>t only would time be lost, but the cost would balloon<br />
• Some changes should have been questioned. Bednarz wanted to set a<br />
range record so one time all three stages accidentally fired upward. <strong>The</strong><br />
third stage l<strong>and</strong>ed somewhere in Brazil<br />
• <strong>The</strong>re should be some compromise between the restrictions of today <strong>and</strong><br />
the efficiency of the X-<strong>17</strong> change implementation<br />
• <strong>The</strong>re is a big difference between optimization of something that works <strong>and</strong><br />
our task to do things that had never been done before
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