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Old 8th May 2012 | 20:09
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DozyWannabe
 
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Lyman - all I can say with any certainty is that what you're proposing is extremely unlikely. Which is to say none of us can know for certain, but based on the information we have it does not seem to be a plausible scenario.

The AoA value could be "wack" on one vane (which appears to be the case for a period), but as long as two of them are providing good data, it's not going to mess the systems up.

You'd need to be talking about a near-supersonic updraft to overcome the normal operation of those vanes, and the data suggests that the forces weren't even close to that.
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