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re: Non-experimental rocket planes...

That depends entirely on where you think experimental ends and routine starts?

One might cite the heavy instrumentation of a vehicle defining it a still in an experimental phase - but then how do you differentiate between simply having all the information to ensure a flight is safe, or having all the information to better understand the vehicles behaviour.

It's not even a line between the two, it's a transition such that one could classify every single Jumbo flight as 1% experiment and 99% routines - with the X-15 being 99% experimentation and 1% routine.

Doug

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