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From: wats@scicom.alphacdc.com (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: SRB flickering/flame
Message-ID: <1088@scicom.alphacdc.com>
Date: 4 Oct 88 00:24:04 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Networks, Denver, Co.
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I think I remember seeing this same flicker on the replays of the 
51-L accident and felt much better when the boosters were jettisoned.

Cable News Network reported that NASA thought it was a backwash (as
has been mentioned already in earlier postings) similar to that 
experienced by a motorcycle rider whose jacket wraps more tightly
around him rather than flapping behind him.

Anyhow I remembered that the flame th`at caused the breakup of the
stack was caused by a relatively small blowtorch-like jet of 
exhaust gases.