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To: Zordas
Yeah, that's what I saw. It was hard to tell from the photo what was left of the attach structure, but I thought that might have been the case. I have no idea of the loading that would be generated by (speculation here) an empennage coming unglued but it certainly could lead to a) big side loading on the whole engine/pylon/wing attach assembly, with b) surge being induced this time by turbulent shedding off the inlet lip due to the large yaw angle and its oscillatory nature (classic compressor stall followed by surge).

So,
bomb --> tail section shears off --> violent dutch roll like yaw --> cyclic loads on engine/pylon assembly --> compressor stall --> surge --> violent cyclic flow --> REALLY big torsional loads --> wing failure --> explosion on wing
seems like just one more plausible scenario.

288 posted on 11/13/2001 2:47:38 PM PST by Regulator
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