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Old January 9th 07, 03:17 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,sci.space.history,sci.space.shuttle
Herb Schaltegger
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Default Why does the shuttle throttle on ascent?

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:44:27 -0600, Jeff Findley wrote
(in article ):

and like almost all of my (poorly built) models from that era, it was likely
destroyed by fire crackers.


We loaded pellets into our Crossman airguns, but the principle was the
same. :-)

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