Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 4/2/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!drutx!cwh From: cwh@drutx.UUCP (Hoffmeyer) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Collision with a bird on reentry Message-ID: <1300@drutx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 15:19:52 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.1300 Posted: Mon Oct 15 15:19:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:15:03 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 11 The network pictures of the shuttle showed a white-ish substance on the underside of one the shuttle surfaces. Was this the 'bird'? Was it perhaps the white ash residue of the deceased avian crisped by impacting a still (very) warm re-entering space vehicle? Comments? - Carl Hoffmeyer WB2YHE drutx!cwh AT&T Information Systems .........break out the barbecue, one serving of singed avian coming up !