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originally posted by: MrBig2430
originally posted by: AMPTAH
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: AMPTAH
According to that statement an aircraft is nothing but an aluminum tube.
Too bad you ignore the .. etc..
You want to "penetrate" matter, you need "density" on impact.
Ponder this : a video was posted of a ping pong ball making a hole through a ping pong paddle.
Pp balls don’t have any density like a paddle, yet it penetrates with lotsa speed.
So what are you missing?
Why is density only part of the equation?
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: AMPTAH
Then you should be able to show an 18 inch thick wall that's capable of stopping somewhere around 200,000 pounds traveling at somewhere near 500 mph. Prove that the wall can stop the plane and that the plane should have just crumpled.
originally posted by: AMPTAH
originally posted by: MrBig2430
originally posted by: AMPTAH
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: AMPTAH
According to that statement an aircraft is nothing but an aluminum tube.
Too bad you ignore the .. etc..
You want to "penetrate" matter, you need "density" on impact.
Ponder this : a video was posted of a ping pong ball making a hole through a ping pong paddle.
Pp balls don’t have any density like a paddle, yet it penetrates with lotsa speed.
So what are you missing?
Why is density only part of the equation?
Because "Impulse" is a force x time which determines how much energy is delivered on impact, and force is momentum per unit time, and momentum is mass times velocity, so it's both density and speed of the missile. However, theres only so fast the moving object can travel, so once you fix the speed, it's all about mass or density.
But, if you take a light weight object, and accelrate it close to the speed of light, you can penetrate anything.
A plane is a slow moving object in this regard though.
So, we're back to density.
The bomber was flying relatively slowly and quite low, seeking better visibility, when it came upon the Chrysler Building in midtown. It swerved to avoid the building but the move sent it straight into the north side of the Empire State Building, near the 79th floor.
Upon impact, the plane’s jet fuel exploded, filling the interior of the building with flames all the way down to the 75th floor and sending flames out of the hole the plane had ripped open in the building’s side.
While the 78th and 79th floors bore the brunt of the damage, one of the B-25's engines fell down an elevator shaft and set off a major fire in the basement. The other engine hurtled across the building and tore through seven walls before emerging from the 33rd Street side of the tower. The debris crashed through the roof of a thirteen-story building across the street where another fire erupted. Other heavy wreckage, including the landing gear, also caused damage to the Empire State and nearby buildings while Stan Lomax reportedly saw part of a wing catapulting towards Madison Avenue.
An engine snapped an elevator cable while at least one woman was riding in the elevator car. The emergency auto brake saved the woman from crashing to the bottom, but the engine fell down the shaft and landed on top of it. Quick-thinking rescuers pulled the woman from the elevator, saving her life.
originally posted by: samkent
a reply to: AMPTAH
An Airplane is not designed to "penetrate" materials. It's designed to "float".
Please show us where any non sea plane is designed to float.
A plane is a slow moving object in this regard though.
originally posted by: AMPTAH
originally posted by: MrBig2430
originally posted by: AMPTAH
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: AMPTAH
According to that statement an aircraft is nothing but an aluminum tube.
Too bad you ignore the .. etc..
You want to "penetrate" matter, you need "density" on impact.
Ponder this : a video was posted of a ping pong ball making a hole through a ping pong paddle.
Pp balls don’t have any density like a paddle, yet it penetrates with lotsa speed.
So what are you missing?
Why is density only part of the equation?
Because "Impulse" is a force x time which determines how much energy is delivered on impact, and force is momentum per unit time, and momentum is mass times velocity, so it's both density and speed of the missile. However, theres only so fast the moving object can travel, so once you fix the speed, it's all about mass or density.
But, if you take a light weight object, and accelrate it close to the speed of light, you can penetrate anything.
A plane is a slow moving object in this regard though.
So, we're back to density.
originally posted by: Salander
originally posted by: samkent
a reply to: AMPTAH
An Airplane is not designed to "penetrate" materials. It's designed to "float".
Please show us where any non sea plane is designed to float.
Sully's flight floated in the river, with humans standing on the wings.
Do you ever watch the news? They made a movie of it.
Aluminum airframes can float and do float, depending upon the actual conditions.
Aluminum airframes DO NOT penetrate concrete buildings and Pennsylvania coal country terrain. Is there no common sense at all?
While the 78th and 79th floors bore the brunt of the damage, one of the B-25's engines fell down an elevator shaft and set off a major fire in the basement. The other engine hurtled across the building and tore through seven walls before emerging from the 33rd Street side of the tower. The debris crashed through the roof of a thirteen-story building across the street where another fire erupted. Other heavy wreckage, including the landing gear, also caused damage to the Empire State and nearby buildings while Stan Lomax reportedly saw part of a wing catapulting towards Madison Avenue.
originally posted by: wmd_2008
originally posted by: Salander
originally posted by: samkent
a reply to: AMPTAH
An Airplane is not designed to "penetrate" materials. It's designed to "float".
Please show us where any non sea plane is designed to float.
Sully's flight floated in the river, with humans standing on the wings.
Do you ever watch the news? They made a movie of it.
Aluminum airframes can float and do float, depending upon the actual conditions.
Aluminum airframes DO NOT penetrate concrete buildings and Pennsylvania coal country terrain. Is there no common sense at all?
Explain this then.
Thick limestone cladding over a brickwork wall and look how thick that is also look at the damage to the floor slab a lot thicker than WTC Towers floor slab.
A smaller lighter slower plane, what we see Salander is someone who thinks they understand physics but in rerality you are lost you don't really understand the physics of collisions or how construction works so sad really.
Just in case you missed this
While the 78th and 79th floors bore the brunt of the damage, one of the B-25's engines fell down an elevator shaft and set off a major fire in the basement. The other engine hurtled across the building and tore through seven walls before emerging from the 33rd Street side of the tower. The debris crashed through the roof of a thirteen-story building across the street where another fire erupted. Other heavy wreckage, including the landing gear, also caused damage to the Empire State and nearby buildings while Stan Lomax reportedly saw part of a wing catapulting towards Madison Avenue.
So why don't you explain the above in your best physics you said you did it at college so lets hear the excuses
Sully's flight floated in the river, with humans standing on the wings.
Do you ever watch the news? They made a movie of it.
Aluminum airframes can float and do float, depending upon the actual conditions.
originally posted by: samkent
a reply to: Salander
Sully's flight floated in the river, with humans standing on the wings.
Do you ever watch the news? They made a movie of it.
Aluminum airframes can float and do float, depending upon the actual conditions.
The claim was that they were "designed" to float.
The key word is "designed".
I say no plane is "designed" to float.
They are designed to fly.
Neither are airplanes designed to burrow into the earth or through buildings. That is why the story of UA93 and AA77 are so crazy impossible, and why anybody that wants me to believe either of those absurd claims is spitting into the wind.
originally posted by: firerescue
a reply to: GBP/JPY
So how many plane crashes you've been too ......?
originally posted by: Salander
originally posted by: firerescue
a reply to: GBP/JPY
So how many plane crashes you've been too ......?
How many English classes have u been too