How could one be charged flight "damage" points when the full-scale flight profile has the vehicle ramming the earth ?
That's absolute bunk.
One should get a flight BONUS for accurately simulating the full-scale flight profile by powr-pranging it back to earth.
They can't have it both ways just for some mamby-pambyness.
This might be worth joining NAR and attempting in a contest just to stir the pot.
Seems the mamby-pamby rule regarding live payloads is bunk too...you could simulate the Little Joe flight with a monkey far more to scale with a live payload and recover it than dead weight.

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