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"Doug \"Woody\" and Erin Beal" wrote in message news:
I watched a portion of Myth Busters where the two knuckleheads tried to debunk the "explosive decompression" phenomenon in the movies. You get the picture. Gun goes off in plane. Fuselage rips open and 6-8 passengers, in flight meals, luggage, and an unsuspecting flight attendant fly into the atmosphere. They pressurized a bone-yarded fuselage with a huffer and used a remote control .45 to shoot out windows and fuselage to see if a large hole would expand out the small starter hole. Results: Small holes stayed small and made hissing noises. Conclusion: Myth. Busted. They failed, however, to introduce a 300/.78 slipstream into the equation, but I doubt it would have changed the result. Point being that these guys seem to make some critical assumptions that *might* affect the results. I didn't see the whole show, but I don't remember them ever addressing the lack of slip stream. --Woody Next time you're out here (yea right) I'll show you some video of our recent tests. We did our own series of tests and recreated the vital conditions. The conclusions are the same as you stated. Explosive decompressions are great for the movies, not realistic though. BlackBeard |
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