Donald Qualls wrote: > ISTM (from the standpoint of someone who's never actually worked on a > liquid fuel test or launch, just to be clear) that if you need three > people to work the actual launch, you need at least one more to drive > the fuel truck and connect and disconnect the hoses. And safety would > suggest you really ought to have separate trucks for fuel and oxidizer, > if you're running a bipropellant system, which makes it much more > efficient to have separate crews for the two trucks (even if the crew is > one person each).
I don't quite get this last part. If you need N people for the launch crew - inspecting the rocket for damage, making sure the flight coordinates are properly set, loading the cargo/passengers and crew, et cetera - why would these functions be replicated on each of the two fuel trucks? You'd have one person to drive the oxidizer truck and connect/disconnect its hoses when it's parked, plus one more to do the same for the fuel truck. Everyone else is needed at the rocket or at the control tower, regardless of where the two trucks are. So, this would seem to argue for N+2, not (N+1)*2. _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
