Quote Originally Posted by 68Charger View Post
The rockets worked as designed, somebody hit the wrong button, or at the wrong time....
when you're playing with that kind of power, there is no margin for error.

Amazing what that airframe can handle, but dropping it onto the runway from that height was just too much.
The Test Flight Engineer fired the second (lower) set of fwd facing rockets too early and stalled the plane.

The tests had been going well up until that point. I think they were doing most of the testing down near/at Duke Field on Eglin AFB. Cant remember.