Comments on: DARPA has released some details about last summer’s HTV-2 hypersonic test flight. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/darpa-has-released-some-details-about-last-summers-htv-2-hypersonic-test-flight/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kelly Starks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/darpa-has-released-some-details-about-last-summers-htv-2-hypersonic-test-flight/#comment-49146 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:43:13 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=16721#comment-49146 Don’t like the sound of peeling off. Wonder if its a generic defect with the ceramic composites or what?

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/darpa-has-released-some-details-about-last-summers-htv-2-hypersonic-test-flight/#comment-49065 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:52:37 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=16721#comment-49065 “. . . unexpectedly large sections of its skin peeled off . . .”

I would love to know how much skin was expected to peel off. But this does illustrate why you have to go out and actually build and test the hardware. There simply is no substitute for empirical data.

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