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List:       flightgear-devel
Subject:    Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss,
From:       Arnt Karlsen <arnt () c2i ! net>
Date:       2003-08-30 19:48:29
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:51:42 -0700, 
Tony Peden <apeden@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
<1062157902.2855.12.camel@raptor.pedens.net>:

> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:04, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:19, Tony Peden wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:08, David Megginson wrote:
> > > > Matthew Johnson writes:
> > > > 
> > > >  > Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner
> > > >  > very few, if anyone ever gets out alive...
> > > > 
> > > > Not at all.  Things go wrong in airliners flown by scheduled
> > > > carriers all the time, and usually no one suffers anything more
> > > > than stress from a delay or rerouting.  Injuries and fatalities
> > > > are very rare in scheduled airline incidents or accidents.
> > > 
> > > Yep, several failures/circumstances generally have to stack up in
> > > order for something bad to happen.
> > > 
> > 
> > Anyone see "Anatomy of a Disaster" about flight 587? Not sure how
> > technical it was, but the program seem to suggest that modern
> > composite fibers aren't as strong as aluminum.
> 
> I saw a bit of it ... they showed some testing they did in which they
> calculated the loads on the tail.  They exceeded the design ultimate
> load, which means that any other material would have failed too. 
> Material selection was, in this case, irrelevant.

..I googled a fair bit, url to the above?  
(Only found TV guides and the TWA-800 site)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.


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