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![]() "= Vox Populi ©" wrote in message ... Arnold Wolfcaste wrote: "Yardpilot" wrote in message news:zhpMb.29488$na.23347@attbi_s04... Those delightfully quirky fellows on Myth Busters decided to play explosive decompression from a gunshot with a DC-9. They pressurized it and fired through the skin from the inside. Nothing. They pressurized it and fired through a window. Nothing. Oh, well. Looks like a big, "Neener! Neener" goes out to certain folks. Sure numbnuts, try it in actual flight and see: This has nothing do with that controlled experiment. Payne Stewart's a/c could have decompressed for any number of other reasons and the size of the leak if that's it was. In a smaller plane, the results could be more catastrophic esp at the higher altitudes. By Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON - Investigators were sifting Tuesday through a small, blackened crater in a South Dakota pasture where the private jet carrying the golfer Payne Stewart and five other people had crashed, ending an eerie flight that millions of people, including Mr. Stewart's wife, had followed live on television. Bodies still were being recovered from the site. snip, and removed irrelevant crossposting |
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