[XBob]

1502 - AKKK!!! I was called a NASA man LOL :

"XBob's diagram is pretty convincing. (ACK! Must I agree with a NASA man?)"

I am an OIL man, who took a short 3 year sojourn into aerospace as a Lockheed man. My brother is the lifetime NASA engineer.

This is what I have been trying to convey since I first saw the USAF picture, 1000 posts ago or so, mr Rockwell man. LOL

[bonesmccoy]

Hey, I never said I was a Rockwell guy.

When you first posited the hypothesis around post 1000, I chose to discount it because I thought the angularity in the USAF photo was due to bleed from adjacent pixels (glare of extremely hot MLG door).

I am attempting to alter the TPS diagram to account for only loss of RCC.

Perhaps you can do that better since you appear to have better graphics software than I.

We still have not attempted to reorient the orbiter with MLG door open. We need a 3-D model to achieve this geometry. Perhaps a Freeper has an appropriate Adobe product.