04-06-2010, 05:43 AM
Hi,
"Shock waves rippled through the exterior aluminum skin of the aircraft like fat water drops of water hitting the surface of a smooth pond.
The metal was permanently bowed out, and a handful of rivets were punched out, but no gaping holes appeared."
That indicates to me that the 80g were enough to drive the skin into plastic deformation. Increasing the charge four fold *might* be enough to blow one or more skin panels out.
Ah, well. Yet another reason to develop teleportation booths.
--Pete
Quote:Didn't some geeks conclude a test where a comparable charge of the stuff was test-detonated in a defunct airliner, and the worst the charge did was flex the skin of the airplane (that, and turn the person sitting next to the pulverized schmuck into an instant qualifier for a handicapped parking sticker).Here's a link to that test. That bomber used about 80g of PETN. If a breast implant is about 4cm in radius and about 2cm thick, then it has a volume of about 100cm^3. Two of them, filled with PETN at a density of about 1.8g/cm^3 gives about 360g of PETN, 4+ times what the underwear bomber used. In the test:
"Shock waves rippled through the exterior aluminum skin of the aircraft like fat water drops of water hitting the surface of a smooth pond.
The metal was permanently bowed out, and a handful of rivets were punched out, but no gaping holes appeared."
That indicates to me that the 80g were enough to drive the skin into plastic deformation. Increasing the charge four fold *might* be enough to blow one or more skin panels out.
Ah, well. Yet another reason to develop teleportation booths.
--Pete
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