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>nozzles bending
thicker material or different trajectory to reduce aero loading. Not impossible to resolve
>big fire at base of booster
yeah venting gas through booster QD ignited by landing burn flame, fixable
>middle engine ring leaking burning gas
the job of an engine is literally to leak burning gas at hotter temperatures and higher pressures than a fire, it's fine
>engine plate glowing during descent
things get hot when you ram air at them at mach 5, the glow you were seeing was the engine heatshields do their job. Pic related shows the nozzles themselves as dark. R3 will probably do away with this phenomenon because they ditch heatshields for integrated cooling channels