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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6424279" data-attributes="member: 177">No.  Scaled Composites.  Virgin Galactic is licensing the tech, not developing it.As a regulating body, no, they don't need an NDA.  They don't need such to investigate the crash of a test airplane, so they don't need one here.  They have their own rules of ethics that regulate their investigators.  If you're going to fly that thing over public space, you don't get to regulate yourself, and have everyone else take your word for it!In addition, the engineering of SpaceShipTwo is not really all that different from other aeronautics - the rocket engine is a bit weird, but they've already determined that engine was likely not the issue, having been recovered intact so that we know it didn't just blow up.  The rest of it is built to fly in air - you know, with wings and stuff.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In another addition - the real root cause may not be in the engineering itself, and there aren't too many bigger experts in, say, proper training, or engineering process improvement than the NTSB.Dude, the NTSB is not sending in "generic guys".  The NTSB doesn't *have* "generic guys".  They are broken down into offices to cover various areas.  You don't get the same agent for a highway issue as you do for a nautical issue, or for an aviation issue.  And they'll get access to the engineering details, and the experts.  The NTSB has resources in engineering better than you may expect.  For example - the lead investigator the NTSB has assigned is Lorenda Ward.  She's got degrees in aerospace engineering, and before joining the NTSB, she worked for the Navy on EA-6B Prowlers and F-14 Tomcats.  F-14s go *faster* than SpaceShipTwo.  So, she's familiar with much of the engineering involved.  She knows high performance aircraft.</blockquote>

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