[BC] WTC TV antenna - now aircraft disintegration

[Pete Allen]

Check out this video of an F-4 hitting a specially designed 'concrete
barrier' and tell me where the plane goes!

It's from an old government engineering test of the concrete barrier
that surrounds nuclear reactor domes --tested to see if it will indeed
survive an aerial attack. With the hi-speed cameras rolling, they
accelerated an old F-4 Phantom to 500 mph and watched in slow motion as
it turned to vapor.

(Wing tips survived only because they were wider than the barrier)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5627408664316784289

Peter J. Allen
Chief Engineer
WRBS 95.1 FM


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark W. Croom [mailto:markc at kjly.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:28 AM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] WTC TV antenna


Aircraft are not particularly sturdy (I suppose because it's tough to
make 
"sturdy" light enough to fly).

No real shock that the pieces are so small, but it helps you understand
why 
no one can survive such a crash.

I'd hate to see the math on those crash forces. Probably a lot of powers
of 
10 there.

Mark
MN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" <paul at amtower.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:14 AM
Subject: RE: [BC] WTC TV antenna


> I've always wondered where the airplanes went.  I heard there were no 
> pieces
> of airplane bigger than a few inches across.  Notice the plane that 
> cratered
> in PA.  You could not find any part of it.  Almost same with ValueJet
in 
> the
> Everglades several years ago.  The impact forces had to be almost
> incalculable
>
> Paul Smith
> Sarasota, FL


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