31. Such demonstrations, it said, could be achieved through analysis and interception flight tests. 32. That test was successful, but two more recent flight tests failed. 33. The anti-missile flight test scheduled for June is the fifth in a series bedeviled by delays. 34. The Democratic-controlled Congress pushed back, however, passing amendments requiring ASAT negotiations and preventing flight tests. 35. The flight tests showed that the plastic coverings of wires burned quite readily, but only when a ventilator fan was blowing, driving oxygen into the flames. 36. The first flight tests for Apex are planned for next year. 37. The jet was on its way to California on Monday to join Air Force flight tests when it struck a bird and returned to Marietta. 38. The new flight tests in California are intended to prove the effectiveness of the enlarged de-icing boots. 39. The NTSB also is expected to discuss findings of its October wake turbulence flight tests, which re-created conditions that existed prior to the crash. 40. The revision disclosed that contractors doing laboratory replays of the flight test had to exclude two-thirds of the gathered sensor data to make such differentiation work. |