[AR] Re: "How Hard Can It Be" rocket episode

  • From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:13:14 -0800

> From: George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>

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> Some of my lawn-dart style manned capsule landers kept G-loads to 10 Gs or
> less for the crew. That should be within tolerance bands for electronics,
> though one needs to look at the specific equipment.

Back in the early 70s part of the testing protocol was to spin bonded
chips at 10,000 g upside down to test that the bonding wires didn't
come off.

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