Well it certainly was able to melt early jet turbine blades, which was the reason that lean combustion and superalloys were invented. But you don't need to melt steel for its strength to go away.
Also an airplane is like a giant beer can, its made to be light and can't knock a giant beam down unless it has been pre cut ahead of time. A good research project would be to find other examples of planes hitting structures. Even Bridges.
I'm sitting in an office building where the steel and concrete beams are 6ft thick in all directions, its a 25 floor building, I'm sure the WTC are even beefier.
The architect of the WTC built those buildings to be plane proof. The Boeing passenger jet he used as a reference was heavier than the planes used on 9/11. He wanted the buildings to be like a mosquito getting, and push a pen through that netting you just get a hole. The entire netting doesn’t collapse.
Planes are getting lighter. Also airplanes are mostly aluminum not steel and concrete rebar.
Planes get destroyed by hitting flocks of birds and lampposts but in 2001 two of them took down three buildings - two of which were specially reinforced against terrorism - that fell on their footprint at freefall speeds, something that's challenging to achieve even with controlled demolition. I hope the truth comes out one day.
I never bothered to look up the melting temperature of steel before today! It is listed as 1370°C to 1530°C. Jet flames (emitted during optimum ignition of jet fuel in a jet engine) have a temperature of 1350 degrees C. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
American Senator Ron Johnson, now Australian politicians….. let’s hope this is a trend.
911 of course!
Building 7?
Zero Jet fuel. Unless a "landing gear" counts ?
Lots of chatter lately...
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Well it certainly was able to melt early jet turbine blades, which was the reason that lean combustion and superalloys were invented. But you don't need to melt steel for its strength to go away.
Also an airplane is like a giant beer can, its made to be light and can't knock a giant beam down unless it has been pre cut ahead of time. A good research project would be to find other examples of planes hitting structures. Even Bridges.
I'm sitting in an office building where the steel and concrete beams are 6ft thick in all directions, its a 25 floor building, I'm sure the WTC are even beefier.
The architect of the WTC built those buildings to be plane proof. The Boeing passenger jet he used as a reference was heavier than the planes used on 9/11. He wanted the buildings to be like a mosquito getting, and push a pen through that netting you just get a hole. The entire netting doesn’t collapse.
Planes are getting lighter. Also airplanes are mostly aluminum not steel and concrete rebar.
Yup!
Planes get destroyed by hitting flocks of birds and lampposts but in 2001 two of them took down three buildings - two of which were specially reinforced against terrorism - that fell on their footprint at freefall speeds, something that's challenging to achieve even with controlled demolition. I hope the truth comes out one day.
And the rubble was on fire for 3 months.
They never thought she would lose! Now they all lose!
I never bothered to look up the melting temperature of steel before today! It is listed as 1370°C to 1530°C. Jet flames (emitted during optimum ignition of jet fuel in a jet engine) have a temperature of 1350 degrees C. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Welcome aboard Senator.