[freepersup]

I've been studying the large images of the shuttle which I posted today, and I don't see the tiles installed as coming anywhere close to the leading edge of the glove as is potrayed by this graph.

There does appear to be significant wrapping or cupping of the RCC material along the underside of leading edge of the left wing. The arrow in the graph points to this area and is annotated as HRSI.

RCC's # 1-4, have a somewhat narrower underside profile compared to RCC's installed sequentially along the wing edge extending to the wing tip. . I made an issue out of this design based on the graph of tile patterns. Final operational design appears to be noticeably different than what is depicted in the graph. It fooled me-

[Budge]

I'm not ignoring you, I'm afraid you're way ahead of me on this, Freepersup. I was too short on time this afternoon, and too tired tonight to do any analyzing. Off for a few days, that'll help get the cobwebs out.