[net.space] Shuttle tiles in the rain

eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/11/85)

In the current Astrogram [our local rag]:

NASA to Test Space Shuttle Tiles in Rain

At Ames-Dryden, they are beginning a series of F-104 flights
with titles mounted on a test fixture [some new some used from
Columbia].  The F-104 will fly behind a KC-135 dumping water out
the back testing sizes of various droplets, and other conditions.
Initial flights (16-28 total) will be over the Mohave and later
over VAFB.  There will be subsonic and supersonic flights. Ice crystal
as well as liquid tests.  A camera and other instruments will
check damage.

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--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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