Rutan Speaks!

Images: Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne and White Knight
Info: Scaled Composites, H.A.L.O.

When the people who just shot a guy into Space faster, cheaper and better than anyone's ever done it before tells you a governmental entity almost ended their project before it began, you better pay attention.
According to a story on Space.com:


“The airline experience has shown us that it is not just technology that provides safety but the maturity that comes from a high-level of flight activity,” Rutan said.
However, Rutan criticized the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (AST), saying “the AST process, focusing only on the non-involved public, just about ruined my program.”

Read the entire story here.

It's ridiculous to think an administrator would know more about flight safety than the engineers who built the craft.
In fact, only an administrator would think that.