Progress on the white monster

Rebar and tie wire roll cages...

No wonder the buildings in Turkey crumble even with the slightest earthquake.

> Paddy I just noticed that in your rear X bars
> there are the fatal "gussets on tube centerline"
> which are shown to lead to tube failures at the
> end of the gussets.
> Get thoise out of the X and get some formed "taco'
> style things in there.
> Goddammit.
> Take a piece of 1/8 or 3mm plate and place in in
> the crook of the forearm and bicep and pull back
> hard.....

I tried this, but I just kept snapping the plate in 2, perhaps I'm just too huge and should try making them out of 1/4" steel instead? But then I'm worried about the weight penalty....

...can't I just sneer at near certain death and not change anything? I'm certain I'll simply burn the thing to the ground with a fuel cell in the cabin on a transit before I flip it on my first stage.