My head spun when I looked at the breadth of the problem. It was hugely complex. As Chris and Randy worked to understand the penetration problem, it was not at all clear how we would ever converge on a solution. We hadn’t broken the problem up properly and divided it up among ourselves. What things did we have to test? What could we understand from basic physics and analysis? What pieces did we need to engineer? And what were the central questions we had to answer? There seemed to be a vacuum of technical leadership in the way we were attacking this.
