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5 hours ago, Deddly said:

According to Wikipedia: 

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In 1928 and 1929, the overall accident rate was about 1 in every million miles (1.6 million kilometers) flown.[5] In today's industry, that accident rate would translate to about 7,000 fatal accidents each year.

It doesn't list the ratio of crashes per flight, but we have a number for miles/kilometres per accident. If we can find the average distance of a flight in those early years, we could make a fairish comparison :)

In 1918 it had been produced over 100.000 planes so it had been millions of landings. I say its also a bit unfair as you had an good chance of surviving an engine out in a WW 1 plane. 
 

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a ww1 aircraft is a lot easier to fly when the engine is out. since a lot of them rotated the engine block around the shaft to maximize cooling.

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Mechazilla is currently paused in the middle of a destack with Ship 34 dangling from the chopsticks. Workers seem to be working at the "skate" the chopsticks are attached.

I have to remember that damn near everything at Starbase is highly experimental.

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This entire situation was insane, my phone was low battery the whole time and I was checking every hour or so and just kept seeing incident after incident occurring at the site. Glad its apparently resolved, Go Ship 34!

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5 minutes ago, Superpluto126 said:

I think we can all agree this is the most cursed stack of vehicles in awhile lol

It's going to get worse, don't look at a Block 3 ship at 3AM (GONE RUD)

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