Deuce Ground Trial 4

Deuce crash prelim report, Mk5 flight overview for this week's bit.ly/OpsSummary9-18… - everyone relax this weekend you all earned it!!

Genesis has ordered the parts for new Deuce engine pods, in a few more days structural analysis completes to see what else needs replacing

if anything, 280 chars per tweet simply means we can use less acronyms & abbreviations. Have never felt we needed more room to  communicate

C7 still has to determine the roll issue but there are certainly no plans to scrap Deuce development, it's almost a solid design like Civvie

Weeeeeeekeeeennnddd!! Also month end! Everyone is excited for all the cool stuff Oct will bring. But first, a recap! bit.ly/OpsSummary9-25…

crash investigation is still ongoing so we won't have a full report til that has been resolved but C7 estimates ~2mo until Deuce flies again

tl;dr Jeb at fault but only from lack of experience, no big design changes, rebuild will take 2 months to make very sure assembly is correct

HAB crew had a good 1st day starting to *very carefully* build the new Deuce prototype. They expect to be finished sometime in mid-January

Deuce's cabin section, the core of the entire aircraft, has been completed. Now it's time to start building outwards, starting with the tail section then the wings over the next month

work on the new Deuce prototype has been going well and is on track to be finished by mid-Jan 2018 for flight testing to resume. It has been meticulously built to a standard never before seen to attempt to alleviate weird control issues that plagued the original prototype

it's not just the buildings getting attention at KSC, we are refurbishing both the turf & dirt runways 09/27 as well as bringing back turf Rwy01/19 compacted once earlier this year for permanent use moving forward

the rebuilt Deuce is undergoing final checkouts this week, which will culminate in a ground test early this Friday followed by a flight test later that day if all goes well. Both Jeb & Val will be at the controls this time

Jeb & Val are psyched to board the real thing tomorrow after spending so much time in the sim. Turning the original Deuce cockpit into a full-motion simulator has been an awesome tool - the primary reason we feel comfortable allowing both to operate for these trials