To: skeptoid
Six 'test' aircraft. I wonder if they will be eventually sold?
I kind of want them to crash one, just to see how the carbon fiber handles an impact test. NASA did that with a 707 once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAXdVZ3HnDM
7 posted on
12/06/2006 11:09:46 AM PST by
July 4th
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To: July 4th
NASA did that with a 707 onceI think it was actually a 720, not a 707.
15 posted on
12/06/2006 11:35:30 AM PST by
PAR35
To: July 4th
I kind of want them to crash one, just to see how the carbon fiber handles an impact test. They might well do that. I'd also expect them to do a bunch of pressurize/depressurize tests to simulate a lifetime's worth of takeoffs and landings ... and they'd probably do that until failure.
Not sure I'd want to buy that one.
16 posted on
12/06/2006 11:38:10 AM PST by
r9etb
To: July 4th
Most aircraft survive crashes fairly intact. It's the fire that's a problem.
20 posted on
12/06/2006 1:03:20 PM PST by
Moonman62
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