mz said:Great stuff!
Why is the tip of the ET like that? A parachute container?
Archibald said:At the time the Shuttle still had turbojets for landing and ferry flights no?
It looks as if there was a kind of small air intake at the base of the fin, plus the two big fairings above the wings...
Archibald said:It looks as if there was a kind of small air intake at the base of the fin...
tinlail said:Oooh! that one I know.
It was thought that the shuttle arm would be inside that spine.
dragon72 said:Interesting to see retractable RCS thrusters in the nose. I suppose that it reduces the number of seperate RCS systems though failure to deploy would be quite problematic.