PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Virgin Galatic Spaceship Two down in the Mojave.
Old 4th Nov 2014, 15:24
  #157 (permalink)  
peekay4
 
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,257
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The flight plan indicated the feather should be unlocked at Mach 1.04
That should be Mach 1.40, not Mach 1.04.

There will undoubtedly be some human-performance analysis to see if one of the pilots saw 1.04 and got it confused with 1.40. However the latest NTSB briefing seems to indicate that the unlock happened prior to reaching Mach 1.02.
peekay4 is offline