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To: kattracks
I doubt you could cut those cables by even flying an aircraft into them.

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridgefacts.htm

Suspension Cables - four 15 3/4" diameter wire ropes.
Number of Strands in each cable - 19 (JSG)
Total Length of Wire in cables - approximately 3600 miles (JSG)
Miles of wrapping wire on each cable - 243 miles 943 feet (JSG)

Number of Suspenders - 1520 (JSG)
Number of Diagonal Stays - 400 (JSG)

Inventor and manufacturer of steel wire cable - John A. Roebling
Tested cable wire strength - 160 ksi
Dead weight of deck and suspenders - 13,240 kips - 3,410 kips per cable.
Maximum load on single cable (Live and Dead Load) - 6,000 kips

Ultimate strength of cables - 24,600 kips
Cable factor of safety - 24,600/6,000 = 4.1
Maximum cable sag - 130 feet
9 posted on 06/20/2003 7:36:10 AM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: finnman69
>I doubt you could cut those cables by even flying an aircraft into them.

A few years ago,
I would have said the same thing
about skyscrapers...

Don't forget, these scum
were trained by the CIA
when Russia was bad.

I'm sure black-ops types
have lots of creative ways
to knock down tough things...

10 posted on 06/20/2003 7:41:46 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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