Challenger's "White Steam" During Ignition and Late Lift-off -- Withholding Continues

On Nov 23, 1:51 am, BradGuth <bradg...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But supposedly our faith-based and too often born-again government
never tell a lie or covers their ***, whereas instead they just
continually exclude and/or lie about most anything that rocks their
good ship LOLLIPOP, and that's just being a good American minion to
the Third Reich that's in charge of our private parts.

Well, the "excluding" definitely continued, as you'll see below.

The following sworn testimony by Dan Germany officially extends the
smoke's begin time out to .678. It is taken from Rogers' open hearing
on March 21, 1986:

MR. GERMANY: This first chart shows the areas of activity that occur
at about the first 3.375 seconds, and it all hinges from an imagery
anomaly point of view around the business that we talk about, the
puffs of smoke or the black smoke.

Up to this point, there have been different numbers associated with
different events, as we have talked to you. This particular time line
today is a current status of those events, trying to tie everything
back and be consistent from this point on.

The confirmed smoke occurs at .678 seconds, as you see on the left-
hand side of the chart. We've got two entries there. One says
"confirmed smoke above the field splice," and it moves initially in
the plus X direction, and then "confirmed black smoke." All that's
trying to say is that there's been a lot of discussion about the
colors of the smoke. We feel, after a thorough analysis of the film
that we have available to us, that that smoke is really shades of
gray. And it starts off, it is kind of like a light shade and it
becomes darker as it goes, before we lose sight of it after a few
seconds.

So those particular events there, I have just listed them twice to try
to help you understand the fact that it is not a given constant shade.

Then we have what we have been describing as multiple puffs of smoke
that occur in a time frame of about .854 seconds up through 2.259
seconds. And in the video film today we will show that to you so you
can graphically see what we are talking about.

CHAIRMAN ROGERS: Now, that is new information from the presentation
made two weeks ago?

MR. GERMANY: Yes, sir, I believe it is, in terms of the video that you
will be seeing.

(The relevant portion of Germany's timeline is shown here:

<http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v5p1288.htm>.)

MR. GERMANY: The last positive evidence of smoke above the right aft
SRB, ET aft ring occurs at 2.733 seconds. The last positive visual
indication is 3.375 seconds. And in there you will see a little
parentheses that says "E-217." That is a camera that perhaps is
indicating potential smoke even further than the 3.375.

I believe, based on the analysis we have done since the last time we
have talked to you and what we will be doing over the next week,
probably we will be able to delete that particular part. I'm not ready
to take it off the chart now, but based on the stuff that we have done
this week we are having difficulty validating for sure that smoke is
occurring all the way up to that point.

We do feel very positive about the 2.733, and then the 3.375. So we
will be updating this as we go.

(Finally during that session, Charlie Stevenson narrated NASA's video
presentation of the revisions to the E60 smoke. The PC did not make
the film content of that video available for this transcript, but you
can rest assured that I have it.)

MR. STEVENSON: What we have highlighted here is the actual smoke as we
see from the camera that is south of the pad and actually looking
north, and we will come back and show you another camera view. This
would be E-60, and here's camera E-63 that looks from the northwest
toward the vehicle.

(A film clip from Camera E60 was shown first. That camera had the dark
tank for background, and thus it showed the "white steam" more
clearly.)

MR. GERMANY: This is the one where you can see the puffs of smoke more
clearly because you've got the white SRB in the background behind you
there.

(Germany's interjection refers to a film clip from Camera E63, which
was shown second.)

MR. STEVENSON: Now we will show you both of them together.

(My final message in this sequence will detail how NASA leaked several
replacement frames from Camera D67, to divert attention from both the
early "white steam" frames shown by Camera E60 and the later "white
steam" interval shown by Camera E217.)

JTM -- <http://www.mission51l.com>
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