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Hi all,
I don't know if it was a rerun and has been thoroughly done over here, but last nights episode of The Mythbusters 'busted' the explosive decompression myth surrounding bullet holes in aircraft. The guys sealed up a junked out cabin, pressurized it, then fired 9mm bullets through first the skin and then a window. Nothing exciting happened. Pretty interesting stuff. They ended the episode by blowing a large hole in the fuselage. I was out of the room when they set the charge so I don't know the size, shape, etc. I did a bang up job of opening a hole. My conviction of the miniscule damage to be caused by a sky marshall or pilot popping off a few caps at a terrorists has been reinforced. The diameter difference between a 9mm (.38") and a .44 Mag wouldn't make any difference. Let's give the good guys the bigger cannon. |
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