Asri-unix.1192 net.space utzoo!decvax!cca!sri-unix!jnc@mit-csr Thu Apr 8 16:51:05 1982 Unmentioned difficulty on Mission 1 Reply-to: JNC@MIT-XX From Av Week (April 5, p 19, article about reentry test data): "At this point in the entry, Lousma flew Columbia manually into an 80 deg right bank to establish the spacecraft on its roll reversal schedule. He flew a manual maneuver to maintain a 3 deg/sec roll rate, compared with 5 deg for the automatic system. The auto roll rate caused a bank overshoot and roll oscillation at this point on MIssion 1." Does anyone remembver hearing about this before? It sounds pretty tame, they way the put it, but that 'roll oscillation' at Mach 24 and 254,000 feet on re-entry must have been pretty wild. ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.