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Old 5th Jun 2018, 23:46
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Coochycool
 
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Thanks for posting. That's the first image I've seen which makes the nature of the damage trully apparent. I think what we're looking at here is some residual inner layers of the radome which have been pushed inwards. Earlier images with poorer contrast had led me to believe that the radome had in fact been entirely erased and we were looking at an exposed forward pressure bulkhead. Merely humble SLF here, so I wonder if others more learned on here can advise whether there have been known instances of aircraft losses under such circumstances, and whether forward bulkheads are ever tested or rated with this scenario in mind?
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