buster skeetin: Everybody give it up for this flap, which went through hell and kept working successfully until the very end.

Everybody give it up for this flap, which went through hell and kept working successfully until the very end.

Holy fuck Starship survived just enough to do the flip and landing burn. Burned through flap still moved and worked. Crazy.

I'm pretty sure both of them looked like that by the end, or it couldn't have stabilized itself aerodynamically. So pour one out for Left Front Flap and Right Front Flap.

And another for the control system, for accommodating a dramatic change in aero profile.

Good point. All flaps give some, some flaps give all

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