Message posted by gary on June 02, 2001 at 15:54:35 PST:
I've contacted this guy who has a wave file of the event. If he allows me, I'll put it up on a free site I have for such stuff. ============================ The following dialog was hear on 237.0 MHz: Chase: "Missile is away... dropping... stable" Chase: "Ignition" Chase: "Starting to climb... looking good" Chase: "Now it's ah, yawing..." Chase: "It's out of control" Chase: "...wild gyrations, we'll try to stay on it here..." Chase: "...tumbling end-over-end, now uh... now dropping, still yawing NASA-008: "...and NASA-2 we're going to have to terminate" NASA-2: "NASA-2 copies" NASA-008: "aircraft clear" NASA-008: "all aircraft clear, wer're gonna arm.... and terminate" Chase: "and the terminate did work... did blow apart... still have some I have mission audio in the form of a .wav file if anybody would like to hear My condolences to NASA on this setback to the X-43 "Hyper-X" program. Jay Mc Kee
All Systems were "Go" and with a 5 second countdown and with the call "LAUNCH
LAUNCH LAUNCH" the X-43A was dropped at 13:43:25 PDT (my time).
wildly"
residual flame as it's going straight down"
Following this NASA test flight in real-time was a first for me. I had my
frequency list, LA Sectional Chart, and X-43 articles and mission profile in
front of me as the drama unfolded. I was really excited for the mission and
at one point I felt her hair on the back of my neck "coming on-line". I'm
really disappointed that the mission was a failure.
what I heard. Email me privately and I'll Winzip it and sent it out you.
Scanning UHF 6NM North of NAWC Point Mugu, CA
PRO-2045 & Diamond DJ-130J discone
"Tape's ON, Fight's ON"
In Reply to: NEWS FLASH posted by Clive on June 02, 2001 at 15:38:24 PST:
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