Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #59573
From: <bktrub@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Crickets....
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:30:48 -0500 (EST)
To: <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
I hope the airliners' skins are not stressed that highly.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@att.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Sun, Feb 10, 2013 7:26 pm
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Crickets....


On Feb 10, 2013, at 9:55 PM, bktrub@aol.com wrote:

Think about it. the air volume contained in the cabin of an airliner escaping through a hole of less than 1/2 inch in diameter?I'm sure the pressurization system would stay well ahead of the air leakage. Maybe using Hollywood physics, but not it's not happening in the real world. 

Brian Trubee

I was thinking more of the stress risers caused by an uneven hole being ripped through the skin leading to a TWA Constellation type event, but I must admit that I've shot some steel barrels but not many airplanes.  8*)


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