Re: Blanket lossening, how?

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:46:40 GMT, Christopher P. Winter
<chrisw20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 23:04:30 -0700, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
> <reunite.gondwana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote (in part):
>
> >On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:20:04 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
> ><Briang1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Just out of interest, what could have caused that blanket to move? They seem
> >> not to be that worried about the heat problem but more worried that if it
> >> flaps some of itself loose, that it might cause some damage to window or
> >> some part further back. Has this ever happened before?Brian
> >
> >They call it a blanket, but it's not soft fuzzy material. It's quite
> >stiff, even if it's called A-FRIZZY and B-FRIZZY (A-FRSI and B-FRSI,
> >maybe?; I don't remember the actual acronym). It is flexible, but not
> >very. Compared to the tiles and the RCC leading edges and nose cap,
> >it's flexible, of course, but it's more like heavy, heavy canvas than
> >like blanket fabric.
>
> Flexible Reusable Surface Insulation
>
> You probably thought it was something more technical, e.g. "Fluorocarbon
> Resin Substrate Insulation".

I did remember that the F was for flexible and the I was for
insulation, but that was it. I might have thought the S was for
Shuttle, but I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten the R.

I worked for NASA, so I learned to ignore the real expansions of
acronyms on the grounds that no one else knew them either. I
discovered this when I innocently asked, in a meeting, what an acronym
stood for and ended up watching about ten guys argue over three
possible expansions for about half an hour. I never asked again.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
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