Enough already, I thought the acid test was a landing that one walks
away from, and these intrepid airmen did this, I gather, hand in hand.
Sounds like a hard landing to me.

BJ

Stewart Kissel wrote:

From Websters Dictionary online:
Main Entry: 1crash
Pronunciation: 'krash
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English crasschen
Date: 15th century
transitive senses
1 a : to break violently and noisily

At 15:06 02 October 2003, Stefan wrote:
Erich Kohlenberger wrote:

Eta had an inflight fuselage breakage during spin
tests.

So it didn't 'crash', but broke up during a test flight,
not the same in
my opinion. (You should have become a journalist!)
Still far from
perfect, though.

Stefan