They did not know it was briefcase-sized at the time. Just to be accurate. Yes, discounting the strike as harmless without active knowledge of the effect of the strike was wrong.
However, in this case, they can directly see (and measure!) the strike damage. It is not castastrophic. It is not even serious. And there is data to back up the determination.
“How do you read a desire to stay away from experiential Programs into my posting??”
Well, you say it yourself in the next paragraph:
“I am considering the flight crews in my comments and I will not accept anything less than a ***100% assurance*** that something as critical as the Foam Bonding is not reliable, give me a break.”
You don’t have “100% assurance” that you won’t get a flat tire on the way to work, what in the world makes you think you’ll have **anything** on an experimental flight test program that has “100% assurance”. If that is your participation criteria, then you must not want to be on experimental programs.
As I said, you don’t seem to understand how these things work.
As I said, you don’t seem to understand how these things work”
No I will tell you what is not going to work your covert insults.
You are not getting it here, If you had a failure and follow the same Exact procedure again guess what?
Look from what I have seen there seems to be no predictability I assume some bond-line testing in the area adjacent to the shuttle is being done and some type of a light scrim reinforcement is in the final spray-up BTW just why is this experimental? and Assurances can be; Done as well as humanly possible with the best material available and double checked.Plus nothing goes out the door I personally would not ride in..Things like that.