> I'd hope he thought it had less than a 1% failure rate. I take your meaning, but I'm just laughing at the idea of a 1% failure rate. If airliners had a 1% fa

> I'd hope he thought it had less than a 1% failure rate. I take your meaning, but I'm just laughing at the idea of a 1% failure rate. If airliners had a 1% failure rate, there would be hundreds of thousands of crashes every year. Experimental craft don't need airliner failure rates of course, but 1% still seems too high for anything with human passengers.