What was the biggest problem for each of the 2 destroyed US space shuttles?

On 2004-09-17, Peter Stickney wrote:

backwards. Some others pop to mind. It used t happen quite a bit on
sailplanes, where it's not uncommon to be removing and remounting the
wings. (An off-field recovery, for example, or for storange in

I read that as "recounting". The images I now have of sailplane pilots
standing around with intent expressions trying to remember how that
'rithmetic stuff goes...

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Pat Flannery writes:


Peter Stickney wrote:

If you ever get out this way, give me a call & we'll pay a visit.
(Oh, yeah, and the World's Greatest Expert on Giant Squid also lives
around here, too)


I live in _North Dakota_.....oh, you mean somebody else...I've heard
around ten people describe themselves as that; are you referring to
Clyde Roper, or Richard Ellis, or....

Clyde Roper. Seein' as he's from the town next to the community that
H.P. Lovecraft used as the prototype for Innsmouth, and he's a
web-foot his own self, I'd say he's got a fair shot at the title.

(The same town, and some of the characters in & about it, also served
as the prototype for Dogpatch. Al Capp had a summer place in North
Hampton, y'see. His editors thought that while the stuff was good,
it's have more appeal if it were set in some hillbilly spot in the
Ozarks somewhere, rather than a New England fishing town.)


The best meal I've ever had, bar none, was a special Society of
Military Engineers meeting at the Officer's Club at the Portsmouth
Naval Shipyard, in order to figure out what to do to resolve the
situation. the Chief Steward had, in fact spent most of his early
career as Albacore's cook.


(Cut to image of cooky frantically trying to keep pastry intact as
submarine barrel rolls and loops....)

That actually happened, and probably more often than it did on the
Seaview. Albacore, with its high speed and highly effective
hydrodynamic controls, showed the potential for airplane-like
maneuverability. This was thorougly explored, both intentionally and
unintentionally. While I don't think that loops were ever performed,
she did, on at least one occasion, perform a fairly creditable
wingover, and a reasonable fascimile of a Split-S.

http://www.eclipse.net/~walshj0/black/ships/atragon/ ;-)



Y'know, I'm somewhat surprised that the Luft '46 True Beleivers haven't
jumped on this one - they're willing to believe all manner of
horse**** about Magnetically Powered Flying Vril Saucers & such, but
they won't credit the poor Japanese with anything.


I still think that "Bitch Empress Of Mu" would be a great name for a
techno-punk band!

Sure would.

But there is always "Hikoki 1946" for the strange Japanese stuff:
http://j-aircraft.org/xplanes/
And for the _really_ weird stuff, there is this:
http://uk.geocities.com/sadakichi09/
Which unfortunately has been "under construction" for around three years
or so.


(Speaking of saucer-shaped flying thingies, In your feeding frenzy
over the new NASA .pdfs, have you gotten to the one about the
transonic behavior of lenticular reentry vehicles?



No, I'll look that one up; do you have the address for that particular one?

Not at the moment, I'll send it when I pin it down.


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Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster