Huge difference
Airbus has already sold many many planes, is an aerospace company with lots of ramifications.
Virgin Galactic is brand new in this field and needs to show very quickly it is reliable and trustworthy.
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- Rocket plane reliability
- Reliability is more of a maintenance issue.
- Bell is clearly not an engineering systems analyst as nearly every assumption he makes is wrong.
- re: Bell is clearly not an engineering systems analyst as nearly every assumption he makes is wrong.
- Typical Bell
- The hybrid engines used for SS1 and SS2 are far safer than the engines used on any X plane.
- Ditto.