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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: Atheist ChaplainAtheist Chaplain Date: Aug 30, 2008 02:44
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> I found the interior damage amazing. Not the extent, but rather the
> clean shear lines of the falsework where the tank hit it.
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> Further, the loss of the suspect tank out the same hole.
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> What was not amazing but was admirable was the crew response. From C2
> and Table 3; 22 seconds after the event, they had throttles back, speed
> brakes out, and 15 seconds later they were on their way down. [Wonder
> what the airspeed timeline looks like..?]
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> Also amazing was no one was killed by the cylinder playing rocket.
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>> I once witnessed an oxy bottle (oxy acetylene type) fall off the back
>> of a ute. It hit the ground, the neck snapped off. It then shot down
>> the hill like a bullet and disappeared into the fog. We found it 100m
>> away half buried.
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> In the US, the common ~150 cm tall "welding tank" is called a "K bottle".
> At 200 bar, there's a hell of a kick in one. Breaking the valve off
> gets you exhaust departing at supersonic speeds and sometimes a deaf
> witness. They can fly for good ways.
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> In the 1970's, Baader-Meinhof set off a bomb at a US/NATO base. It did
> little direct damage but the knocked-over K bottles, uncapped, went
> through several cement walls and demolished cars a half-klick+ away...
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I have a cousin that is a walking talking miracle, he was working as a tyre
mechanic for a large tyre chain back in the late 70's and he was using oxy
gear, something happened to the acetylene line and it blew back to the
bottle and caused it to literally blow the top off the bottle, from all
reports the bottle took off like a rocket, collected my cousin on the way
and then proceeded through the concrete besser block back wall of the
workshop with him in tow, leaving a man sized hole in the wall and one VERY
damaged man on the other side, he was flown to RPA in Sydney and was not
expected to live with his injuries. I'm glad to say he is still around and
kicking and if you didn't know what happened to him you could not tell he
was that close to death all those years ago. He is one very lucky man.
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