Re: ET foam


"Monte Davis" <monte.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Herb Schaltegger <herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Well thank God after nearly 35 years of development and 25 years of
> >flight operations, some anonymous genius from Usenet is around to help
> >them out. I'm sure vibrations, thermal environment, acoustics and
> >material properties never once occurred to the ET designers. So
> >thanks!
>
> You forgot to mention that the high-speed, highly variable airflows
> around the ET during launch would be kind to the "FLEXIBLE coating
> applied over foam." See, it deforms the way you *want* it to if any
> foam beneath it shifts, but never the way you *don't* want it to, like
> say ripping to shreds within a minute or two. It's great stuff...
> really.

I hope they're using Great Stuff Pro (http://greatstuff.dow.com/pro/) on the
ET, not the cheap stuff you get at the local hardware.



Jeff
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