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To: granite
I can't reconcile the "Corkscrew Effect".

Ah, yes. The good old "corkscrew effect." Somehow that has become accepted as "characteristic" of rocket launches. It's bullshit.

Suffice it to say that rockets under proper guidance do not go corkscrewing through the air after launch.

Not to say that it never happens....

50 posted on 11/23/2010 11:06:00 AM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Sometimes the corkscrews are on purpose. Pt. Mugu's China Lake target zone is only 150 miles NNE.


75 posted on 11/23/2010 11:30:45 AM PST by Reeses
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