Goes to show how good the engineers really were that developed the Saturn5 1st stage rocket engine. One of a few designs with zero failures. Just goes to show that the engineers in this program have not simulated nor thought out all the issues that the engines are actually facing. A lot needs to be considered , and takes very special people to be able to look at the over all system, and see the potential issues. Often single tests are totally successful , but when multiple engines are employed issues begin to arise that were not there for the single engine test. Sometimes it is a frequency clash that can cause a whole lot of previously undisclosed issues. That happened on the first multi engine aircraft.

Let us hope that the engineers continue to see the "Big Picture" and not just what would meet a particular immediate goal.

I once asked my yr 8 science class whether they would put people in a room with a pure oxygen atmosphere with anything that could burn and then lock them in . They all said no. Shame that the Apollo 1 capsule designers did not think in the same way when they were concerned with meeting certain goals.

Brian