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Aero-Linx: SpaceX Falcon 9 Overview SpaceX notes that the Falcon launch vehicle family is designed to provide breakthrough advances in reliability, cost, flight environment and time to launch. Falcon 9 has nine Merlin engines clustered together. This vehicle will be capable of sustaining an engine failure at any point in flight and still successfully completing its mission. This actually results in an even higher level of reliability than a single engine stage. The SpaceX nine engine architecture is an improved version of the architecture employed by the Saturn V and Saturn I rockets of the Apollo Program, which had flawless flight records despite losing engines on a number of missions.

"NAFI feels it is important to continue discussions that may lead to more effective and professional flight training efforts... We want to help make sure that if any changes are made, they are to enhance safety and professional ability of flight instructors, while at the same time not place unnecessary burdens on instructors for keeping their certificates active or eliminate the ability of senior and more experienced instructors to share their knowledge with new pilots." Source: NAFI Executive Director Jason Blair, in comments related to NAFI's announced plans to attend a public meeting hosted by the FAA...