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Old 07-30-2005 | 09:28 AM
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Default RE: NEED AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER FOR PATENT/PLANE/ENGINE DEVELOPMENT

Terry, regular epoxy resins for the CF veil would be toast within the first 80 seconds during ascent. Going up-hill is a REALLY rough environment thermally, vibro-acoustically, and aerodynamically. There are some high temp resins (BMIs?), but they only get you a little bit higher, nothing compared to the temps that the External Tank OML can hit during ascent.

ET: the glue on the Harbor Freight tape would be gone even sooner! And yes, I have stacks of the Harbor Freight weekly catalogs at work. They send them far too often!

Turbine, turbine, turbine!