Russian techie humor

[alex fraser]

   This is a quote from the book rocketspeople volume 2

setting:  A four stage R-7 being prepped  for a flight  Venus 1961?

"On the very first day of tests at the launch site, we discovered that 
the third stage gyro horizon rapidly drifted and moved to a stop 
position, thus issuing an emergency engine shutdown command. After 
several tries we still couldn’t determine the cause of the defect. 
Viktor Kuznetsov accepted the blame and proposed replacing the instrument.
At 11 p.m. on 3 February, a 15-minute State Commission meeting was held 
right in the bunker. On behalf of Chief Designer Pilyugin, Finogeyev 
reported the readiness of the launch vehicle control system. Ishlinskiy, 
who had been assigned to determine the possible causes for the gyro 
horizon’s abnormal drift, gave a 3-minute report with his innate 
professorial flair. The snoozing Keldysh gave a start, and violating the 
official rules of order, concluded, “Even a person who doesn’t know the 
gyroscope’s operating principles can see from your report that it is 
better to fly without gyroscopes.”

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It's a small world, till you try to dig a holein it.


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