@tacitblue1973

The accounts of both Have Blue losses are incorrect. Ship one was lost due to a lower than designed speed on final which triggered an AoA limit that deployed the variable geometry platypus exhaust deck. This caused the aircraft to heavily impact the runway which damaged the right main gear. Park retracted the gear on the go-around and it wouldn't extend back down, several attempts were made to lower the stuck gear by bringing the aircraft down onto the runway on the good side to shake it down but they failed. Running out of fuel climbing to a safe ejection altitude Park ejected but hit his head on the Stencil seat headrest and ended up unconscious with a broken leg dragged by the parachute with a mouthful of desert soil blocking his airway.

Ship two's last flight lasted 10 minutes, sortied to the area of the Tonopah test range for a test against the F-15's radar, one of the J85 engine's exhaust failed causing hydraulic system failure which pitched the vehicle into a -7g nose down pitch movement followed by a series of positive and negative g oscillations in which Dyson was lucky to find the ejection handle and bail out of.