In a message dated 07/16/2002 11:17:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lafrance@verizon.net writes: > The spectacular setback to the Japanese superjet project, which has > taken five years to bring to the testing stage, came seconds after > takeoff at Woomera, the site of a long-abandoned British rocket testing > range. > Seems like the real setback in this "disaster" is just that they lost the model, since it was the rocket rather than the aircraft the Japanese are actually working on that really failed. Tom Fan of testing new things at long-abandoned British rocket testing ranges