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So my girlfriend is on a business trip to Florida, north of Miami, and shortly after arriving at her hotel yesterday, she walked out to the beach to watch the FH launch.   And honestly, she caught some of the best handheld, amateur phone video you can ever expect to see of the launch.     She said she watched it all the way to the boosters landing, so I think the video got cut off when she texted it to me.   
 

 

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And whats the gap filler? If you're getting into custom shapes maybe just make them fewer and larger? Is the heat expansion really that huge? 

Edit: My guess is because of the necessary hardness the material tolerance of the tiles leads to a max diameter before internal thermal expansion causes them to facture. I'm amazed this is diameter is so small, and that they're worried about them mashing together and buckling or prying off the mechanical fasteners even with cm+ gaps.

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21 hours ago, Gargamel said:

And honestly, she caught some of the best handheld, amateur phone video you can ever expect to see of the launch.    

Level horizon, nice use of negative space ahead of the vehicle, reasonably steady hand, etc. Good job! Be sure to thank her for us.

Also really interesting to see how much down range velocity has to be cancelled out in the boost back burn. Screech to a halt then lob them up and back for the ultimate 3 point shot... Awesome!

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