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Old 02-23-2009, 01:48 PM   #612
glatt
 
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Good enough!

It's the flaps from the wing of the Enterprise space shuttle and the side of the tail. The Enterprise never flew in space, so it had no engines and the heat tiles were made only of foam. (I didn't know that.) But it flew several missions in the Earth's atmosphere, taken up onto the back of a 747 and gliding down.

See the yellow circle for the area of the shot.
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