Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpl!knudsen
From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: That SRB flame
Keywords: Remember the Saturn V
Message-ID: <7055@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 88 18:00:36 GMT
References: <3447@ihuxz.ATT.COM> <141@enuxha.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <141@enuxha.UUCP>, kluksdah@enuxha.UUCP (Norman C. Kluksdahl) writes:
> In article <3447@ihuxz.ATT.COM>, dwv@ihuxz.ATT.COM (Bazooka Joe) writes:
> Now, this raises some interesting questions regarding the shuttle.  If the
> backflow problem can be this severe, what is the effect of the backflow from
> the SRB's and the three SSME's??  It seems to me that the critial area for
> backflow would be at the base of the external tank.  If this is the case,
> then I hope that the ET has very good insulation in that area.

My sentiments exactly.  Note the Russians have solved the problem
just like the Saturn V -- put the main engines under the tank!
(Now if they'd just put the bird on top so it looked like a rocket
instead of an "American joke"...)
And thanks for the Saturn history.