Re: Mystery Mountain Meteorite Malady

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The color stills just before impact show some flames back at the
exhaust, but they are only going a couple feet behind the rocket, so it
looks like thrust was pretty much terminated by the time of impact.

If the rocket was going (mostly) straight down, unless the tanks were
pressurized, or they had drains at the top, I guess it stands to
reason that thrust would have terminated no?

rick jones
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