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Old 15th Apr 2011, 20:02
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PJ2
 
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Lonewolf;
I'll guess that the fuel tanks suffered trauma
I think it is reasonable to posit that the wing surfaces would have separated as a result of a "hydrodynamic pressure surge" from the [incompressible] fuel, (discussed in the BEA Report on the Concorde accident, Appendix 9, in French here, and on pg. 111 of English version of the entire report here), and relatively little air-space in the outer and inner tanks, and the horizontal stabilizers would likely behave the same way as they would have been full.

grity...very imaginative work - I was also examining it using various color filters to see what showed in terms of patterns, etc...

One thing about stretching...we have the vertical and horizontal scale so we have a ratio...does stretching the image maintain the ratio, I wonder? It's essentially 1:3...
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