Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
From where I sit, there is time to deal with the fairing as the "closer to production sized prototypes" go through the design and design reviews, don't you think?
Scope limitations in a program: a requirement.
Although I generally don't disagree I'm still wondering if the effort for testing it on the prototype would have been really that high ?
If everything else is in place I would have thought this effort shouldn't have been too high and you could learn potentially important things early giving you time to work on it systematically without the ususal rush/stress/time limitations in the 'real' project.
Maybe the budget was simply consumed by then and it was not considered worthwhile...
Coming from an engineering background myself I feel with the engineers/designers who would have surely loved to test it.