In article , "John Maxson"
wrote:

The tiles on those floating pieces certainly looked damaged
to me (in Av Week's excellent color photos), despite the fact
that they were designed to withstand very high heating.

"Moe Blues" a écrit dans le message
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Yeah, I guess having several tons of LOX and liquid hydrogen
detonate mere feet away, then fall miles to the ocean should
result in no damage whatever.

Lou Van Hille wrote
in message ...

what's the link to those pictures please ?

John Maxson wrote
in message ...

There are two. My son Dan has promised to place one
of them on a web page. (I don't know which one.)

Dan probably intends to show you the internal surface of
the recovered right-forward fuselage. He may not show
you NASA's view of the external surface (even though it
doesn't hold a candle to Av Week's view), so here it is:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/510552.asp?cp1=1

In any event, I imagine Daniel will appreciate the way Jay
Barbree has come so ebulliently to the aid of what I and
many others think about as NASA's illusion.

--
John Thomas Maxson, Retired Engineer (Aerospace)
Author, The Betrayal of Mission 51-L (www.mission51l.com)