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an airman [...] dropped a socket from a socket wrench, which fell about 80 feet (24 m) before hitting and piercing the skin on the rocket's first-stage fuel tan
by joosters 10y ago
an airman [...] dropped a socket from a socket wrench, which fell about 80 feet (24 m) before hitting and piercing the skin on the rocket's first-stage fuel tank, causing it to leak
This made me think of the wonderful book 'Ignition!' that has a similar prophetic passage in it:
Say that somebody dropped (accidentally or otherwise) a greasy wrench into 10,000 gallons of 90 percent peroxide in the hold of the ship. What would happen — and would the ship survive?
- ethbro 10y agoOut of interest, did you manage to track down a physical copy or read digital? I've been trying to get one for my father but devilishly hard to find at a reasonable price.
- joosters 10y agoNo physical copy, unfortunately. They seem to be extremely rare and hugely expensive when they are sold. The PDF is available at http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf but I've no idea how legal that is...
- FiatLuxDave 10y agoOut of interest, what do you consider a reasonable price? I have a physical copy.