"Peter Glasų" pgglaso @ broadpark.no wrote in message
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"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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Gators was an attempt at humor,but even normally brave people shy away
at
the thought of being a gator's dinner.
I was out in Florida retrofitting some old 727s in '92 and I found fried
gator tail to be delicious.
But the chance of hitting something critical still is very small,and
the
frontal area of an airplane is still pretty small and a moving target.
Still not an easy task.
Hitting a target moving at 120 kts with a bullet would be pure luck.
Snipers have ignited the fuel tanks of APCs at ranges over a mile with
0.50
cal. sniper rifles.Hitting a 747 at a range of a few hundred yards should
be
no problem - especially with a semi-auto rifle with a 10 round
magazine.One
could do it while the aircraft is on the ground.Would an airliner like the
747 survive an explosive,incendiary round hitting a fuel tank? One would
think that the fumes in a near empty tank of an aircraft who has just
landed
would ignite immediatly.
One would be wrong, the temperature in those tanks will be very low.
The risk, as seen in the case of TWA800 and the 737 that blew up at
the gate in Manila is when an empty tank has been sitting in the sun all
day.
Keith
is hot after sitting in the su
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