Columbia

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Feb 2 00:50:01 2003

>> What hit the tiles appeared to be only insulation. The tiles are
>> brittle, but a chunk of insulation shouldn't have damaged them.
>
> Even at Mach 1?

The relative speed of the chunk of insulation to the wing at the time
of impact surely couldn't have been anywhere near that fast.
Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 00:50:01 GMT

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