Man's Reliability in the X-15 Aerospace System Space and Information Systems Div., North American Aviation, Incorporated

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Wilson, R. B., author.

Conference Name:

SAE World Congress & Exhibition (1964-01-01 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1964

Summary:

History of X-15 performance reveals that the pilot, by unscheduled or unplanned inputs, enabled completion of almost twice as many flights as would otherwise have been completed on a routine basis. The prelaunch team (including the pilot) supported 92 successful routine launchings and overcame malfunctions to enable 10 additional launchings; 13 missions were unsuccessful because of team error. The maintenance crew was responsible for 6 failures out of 164 mission attempts.A reliability point estimate of 0.84 for the X-15 personnel subsystem is derived from these comparisons

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Publisher Number:

640608

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