Re: Multiple Engines???

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher M. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The only good example I can recall of liquid fueled rocket engines
>failing in catastrophic and dramatic fashion in a developed rocketry
>program (i.e. after the initial development of orbital rocketry) would
>be the N-1, and there are some fairly good reasons to take that as a
>special case.

Yes, liquid-engine systems can and do misbehave disastrously while still
in development... and by any normal standard, the N-1's first-stage
propulsion (at least) was not ready for flight. 
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