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X-43 Team uses Safety Days for training exercise
X-Press Editor P281 turns red, indicating the purge pressure in the X-43A is below the minimum safe value. An engineer in the control room sees the change and calls the simulated B-52 carrying the X-43A stack and asks if the crew sees a pressure drop too. The B-52 crew confirms the pressure drop, which indicates that it is not an instrumentation error. On a different area of the panel in the control room another line of information turns red. The flow control valve registers 3 volts where it should read 0 volts. The implication is that gas is flowing when it shouldn't be. Continued The sky is not the limitSylvia E. PiersonX-Press Assistant Editor Although the majority of us watch the dizzying ballet of aerobatics safely within the grasp of terra firma, there are those among us who seek to thrill us with their daring mazes of aerial twists and turns. Two of Dryden's executives dare to do just that. Familiar to many as the Director of Flight Operations and the Director of Aerospace Projects, respectively, Marta Bohn-Meyer and Robert R. Meyer, Jr. are no strangers to success on the ground or in the sky. In fact, they are also widely known within international circles for their individual expertise in the world of aerobatics. Continued |
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Responsible NASA Official: John Childress For questions, contact: Dryden Web Group Page Curator:WD-Team Modified: January 24, 2001 |
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