Mohave explosion?

[skybolt2003]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070726/ts_ ... plosion_dc?

[vg-photo]

I saw the news, no details yet...anyone hear anything?

[vg-photo]

It was at Scaled Composites...

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/ ... 58867.html

[skybolt2003]

oy.

[vg-photo]

It looks like they were doing a cold fire test of some sort.

[bdk]

They are saying it was a test of nitrous oxide flow (a test they had performed once before) for a rocket motor and there was an explosion. 2 killed 4 injured. Lots of scattered debris shown in the photos. A very sad day in Mojave.

# killed and 3 injured here is a link

http://www.latimes.com/news/printeditio ... california

Steve

[bdk]

Nitrous Oxide is an oxidizer, not a fuel so it will not burn although it might cause things around it to ignite. It is interesting to note the force of the "explosion," enough to knock over a semi-trailer.

[ZRX61]

I saw the news, no details yet...anyone hear anything?

I heard it from here (Quartz Hill).... knew it wasn't the usual sonic boom. Friend of mine was welding on that test stand contraption the day before....