[spunkets]

All right, that should have been ft/sec...26000 ft/sec. The other units listed in #421 should be ft/sec, not mph also.

[r9etb]

All right, that should have been ft/sec...26000 ft/sec.

25,400 fps is more accurate... ;-)

[Cold Heat]

Well, I located the mpeg that I wanted (apparently shot by the same camera cuz it is out of focus), of the bottom (z-) of the wing.

I have a dell laptop, so I can tilt the screen to get a 3-part 3-d view if I combine them in my head so they layer.

I see the chunk of insulation strike edge on, slightly left(maybe a foot or less) of the point where the wing flares to the front and directly behind the leading edge(maybe 6 inches), of the wing. It appeared to hit right on the line between the black edge and the tiles.

In short, looks like it hit the first row.

As before, when I saw the video on TV, I cannot see any change in hue or a mark of any kind.

Is it possible that the impact damaged the first tile that mates with the leading edge and allowed plasma to flow into the void and burn out the hole until it broke through underneath the leading edge?

This is the only way I can figure the tile impact may have damage the wing enough to cause a eventual loss of the craft.