Re: The foam did not do it

There is foam above, as it were, the wing.

In any case with either the main conclusions, or the ones presented here,
which apart from the sensor data, I feel very much that its unlikely that
this could happen, I see no other proof either.

The facts are that nobody can ever be 100 percent sure of exactly what
happened, but there are enough smoking guns littered about to have a damn
good idea. Unfortunately sensors are only as good as the results they have
been proven to give, and depending on how they are mounted and the direction
of the impact can give some ambiguous results.

Interesting reading, but it does not change anything, even if it were true.
The facts are that impacts to the wing in this area are more dangerous than
the designers catered for, and thus you either have to be sure nothing hits
it, or beef it up a lot.

Brian

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| > Because the falling form has a very large surface area and relatively
| > low mass it quickly slowed down as soon as it separated from Columbia,
| > resulting in Columbia's wing in effect running into the foam at about
| > 500 miles per hour.
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| Can you clarify (for this non-physicist) what you mean by "running into
the
| foam". Surely you are not saying the foam dislodged from above the wing?
If
| so how did it come to hit the underside of the wing?
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| Katipo
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