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To: Velveeta

Sounds consistent with a "passive" impact (my term - not based on any engineering), I.E., impact with an object with a speed low enough to be considered negligable compared with forward speed of aircraft. Any kind of hard object such as a missile in flight might have done a lot more damage, even if it were a dud.

Experiments with frozen birds launched into aircraft structures have shown significant damage from hard impacts, but I don't know about the results of "soft" or thawed critters.


2,173 posted on 12/06/2004 7:47:33 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Couldn't you have stopped shooting at us and watched your baby grow instead?)
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To: SlowBoat407

LOL at thawed critters.

Thank you for the explanation.


2,178 posted on 12/06/2004 7:52:33 AM PST by Velveeta
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