Mike Dennis wrote:
"Mike Dennis" wrote in message
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Just how rough is a shuttle reentry? I've read a lot of reports in the
press over the years about "buffeting" during reentry, but I've never

Nobody know, huh? On this group I've heard of a lot of design points argued
that "it has to be designed this way due to reentry buffeting and loads".
But it doesn't really seem like any of us know, do we?

Well, I'd start by looking for records of accellerometer data from shuttle
entries.

Have you spent a little while with the NASA search engine?