[PapaBear3625]

So they knew for a while that their design was NOT safe to carry passengers.

[Red Badger]

And I bet you they never did a full X-Ray scan of that pitiful hull after any of the trips or tests, to check for stress cracks..........

[Zhang Fei]

[So they knew for a while that their design was NOT safe to carry passengers.]

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The guy was likely underfunded because nobody thought this was a viable business. When you can’t raise money to do what you need to do, some will bail and some will cut corners. When corner-cutting somehow emerges triumphant, the guy who made it work is hailed as a visionary. Elon Musk was supposedly on his slug of cash and about to pack it in, when Tesla finally got production off the ground.