See #49 for the presently available details.
George wrote in #16:
>I don't see a ton of anything other than the weight of an SM-2. Where did the TNT come from?
Please note that I did not say it was TNT, only that the airblast was equivalent to airblast from 1-ton TNT, or 2-ton nuclear, or 2400-lb ANFO, or 30 gallons propane, or some other weight of wheat dust in a grain silo.
>David McClaine didn't see it blow up. Fritz Meyer claims to have seen its babies blow up.
The glowing fireball from 1-ton TNT reaches only 20.7 ft in a fraction of a millisecond, after which one might see the left-over explosive fuel burn for a very short time. The explosions you see in movies and TV are near-surface bursts loaded with dirt and burning debris, or purposeful visual enhancements. After TWA-800 was broken up all kinds of flashes and flames could have resulted to satisfy Meyer, but it was much later when the massive fireball from wing tanks full of Jet-A came out for everyone to see.
>The 'bursts' were part of the flaming debris. And irrelevant to the source IE.
Straight Ahead, Jack W. Reed