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Austin's Bob Mosley III Leads Vicious 'Shoot the 51-L Messenger' Campaign
In late October 1987, AF Col. Ed O'Connor (who directed the
51-L debris recovery) confirmed an in-cloud booster crossing. =========================================== DANIEL MAXSON: Do the SRBs -- or did they -- cross in the clouds? COL. ED O'CONNOR: Ya, the feeling is they did. What happened is when the aft fixture failed, that SRB rotated out. So that's why the thrust would force it to *cross* -- after the *forward* section failed -- cross the path of the other which was still *attached*! DANIEL MAXSON: Ya but -- but they were held *together*. I was told by a NASA expert the SRBs were held together by a big *ring* of the thrust structure of the external tank. Otherwise they would have immediately exited the cloud. And that they went maybe a half-second held together by some kind of an ET *ring* frame. COL. ED O'CONNOR: Well, there's *two* things that holds it together. At the *rear* there's a heavy ring for attachment, and that's where the *failure* occurred, heating one of those struts that holds them together and then *ripping* the rest of it out. In the *top* structure, there's a thrust *beam* that goes through the intertank area. There's some *ancillary* stuff there. The forward *held* for a little bit. DANIEL MAXSON: And it allowed them to cross. COL. ED O'CONNOR: Ya. DANIEL MAXSON: Okay. =========================================== [Given probable cause, a federal judge can order an 'in camera' inspection of classified (in this case SENSITIVE) film data.] -- John Thomas Maxson, Retired Engineer (Aerospace) Author, The Betrayal of Mission 51-L (www.mission51l.com) Charleston wrote in message news:xA1Ua.38902$zy.2388@fed1read06... snipped the snot |
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Austin's Bob Mosley III Leads Vicious 'Shoot the 51-L Messenger' Campaign
"John Maxson" wrote in message
... In late October 1987, AF Col. Ed O'Connor (who directed the 51-L debris recovery) confirmed an in-cloud booster crossing.... Did you read Doug's post about psychosis? You know you don't have to prove him right, but you are doing just that. You know the lack of quotes is what gave it away;-) =========================================== DANIEL MAXSON: Do the SRBs -- or did they -- cross in the clouds? COL. ED O'CONNOR: Ya, the feeling is they did. What happened is when the aft fixture failed, that SRB rotated out. So that's why the thrust would force it to *cross* -- after the *forward* section failed -- cross the path of the other which was still *attached*! DANIEL MAXSON: Ya but -- but they were held *together*. I was told by a NASA expert the SRBs were held together by a big *ring* of the thrust structure of the external tank. Otherwise they would have immediately exited the cloud. And that they went maybe a half-second held together by some kind of an ET *ring* frame. COL. ED O'CONNOR: Well, there's *two* things that holds it together. At the *rear* there's a heavy ring for attachment, and that's where the *failure* occurred, heating one of those struts that holds them together and then *ripping* the rest of it out. In the *top* structure, there's a thrust *beam* that goes through the intertank area. There's some *ancillary* stuff there. The forward *held* for a little bit. DANIEL MAXSON: And it allowed them to cross. COL. ED O'CONNOR: Ya. DANIEL MAXSON: Okay. =========================================== -- Daniel Mount Charleston, not Charleston, SC |
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Austin's Bob Mosley III Leads Vicious 'Shoot the 51-L Messenger' Campaign
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DANIEL MAXSON: Do the SRBs -- or did they -- cross in the clouds? COL. ED O'CONNOR: Ya, the feeling is they did. What happened is when the aft fixture failed, that SRB rotated out. So that's why the thrust would force it to *cross* -- after the *forward* section failed -- cross the path of the other which was still *attached*! DANIEL MAXSON: Ya but -- but they were held *together*. I was told by a NASA expert the SRBs were held together by a big *ring* of the thrust structure of the external tank. Otherwise they would have immediately exited the cloud. And that they went maybe a half-second held together by some kind of an ET *ring* frame. COL. ED O'CONNOR: Well, there's *two* things that holds it together. At the *rear* there's a heavy ring for attachment, and that's where the *failure* occurred, heating one of those struts that holds them together and then *ripping* the rest of it out. In the *top* structure, there's a thrust *beam* that goes through the intertank area. There's some *ancillary* stuff there. The forward *held* for a little bit. DANIEL MAXSON: And it allowed them to cross. COL. ED O'CONNOR: Ya. DANIEL MAXSON: Okay. =========================================== -- John Thomas Maxson, Retired Engineer (Aerospace) Author, The Betrayal of Mission 51-L (www.mission51l.com) Charleston wrote in message news:v%2Ua.39792$zy.12003@fed1read06... Did you read Doug's post about psychosis? Do you read? |
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