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as I said before, they used to carry heat shielding tile replacement kits but they were canned in budget cuts. It's quite common that they come off.
On the BBC they showed an image from the shuttle in orbit, looking down at the earth and you could see a huge (from the perspective I got) dent in the wing. It couldn't have been missed, they must have thought it would be ok.
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as I said before, they used to carry heat shielding tile replacement kits but they were canned in budget cuts. It's quite common that they come off.
Unbelievable. Like the puncture repair kit I had when I was a kid. The glue always sucked in them too.
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On the BBC they showed an image from the shuttle in orbit, looking down at the earth and you could see a huge (from the perspective I got) dent in the wing. It couldn't have been missed, they must have thought it would be ok.
Somebody's been watching that footage a little more closely, I imagine. To think that the description of flying the shuttle is 'a brick with wings' and I've watched enough Discovery to know that it is the form of the wing that creates lift. And they need all they can get.
Hmm, interesting, would you by any chance have a link to that picture, Aversion?
I was looking for one but can't find it anywhere online, I saw it on the channel 4 news in england. It's one of those images taken from orbit looking down at the earth.
actually here's a link to the story, but for some reason, even thought the story is about the images, they didn't seem to think that they needed to show the images.. weird.
http://www.itv.com/news/1670532.html
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Dramatic new pictures from Nasa of the space shuttle Columbia show a large dent and possibly a crack forming in the left wing of the craft as it orbited Earth a week ago.
You don't think that they're not showing them because...
Nah. maybe
Hey, that video in aversion's link has footage of the piece hitting the wing on take off and a shot of the dent in the wing.