[ RadSafe ] Unidentified Helicopters Nearly Fired UponOver Nuclear Power ...

[Gerry Blackwood]

Yep well we know if the engine hits us we are fairly ok...... but lets try a Boeing 737 Cruising speed: 795 - 908 km/h  and with a typical take-off weight: 62.8 t loaded with fuel and  explosives ???? 


BLHamrick at aol.com wrote:In a message dated 3/12/2005 2:22:31 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, sandyfl at earthlink.net writes:
If I my memory is correct, there has been an actual case of a small 
plane hitting a containment building. There was no damage. Perhaps 
someone else recalls the scenario?

Here's a note on the tests from Mechanical Engineering Magazine, June 2002:
 
"The U.S. aircraft engine tests, conducted by Sandia National Laboratories, slammed a 4,000-pound jet engine into a 24-inch-thick concrete wall at 240 mph, resulting in extensive cracking and spallation (concrete pieces on the inside of the wall become dislodged and airborne), but no penetration. The same engine hitting a 63-inch-thick, reinforced concrete wall, similar to a nuclear containment structure, at 480 mph resulted in less damage and no penetration."
 
Barbara




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