On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:11:48 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Okay, I'm in 166 pages so far... and _this_ is interesting.
The fact that the titanium would actually _burn_ and not just melt was
very unexpected.

....Which begs explanation of just how much high velocity heat testing
has been done to titanium alloys prior to the Shuttle, especially with
some of the reentry body concepts such as ASSET.

OM
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