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Old 4th Dec 2001, 02:22
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Trader AL, When a main spar in a wing, tail or Pylon breaks, the resulting release of energy looks and sounds very much like a bomb.

Go find the films of the test of the 777 Wing SPar to destruction. When the SPar lets go it looks and sounds like someone exploded a bomb in the Boeing factory.

As a science experiment of your own, find a big dry stick and crack it, makes a lot of noise and releases a lot of energy into your hand. Now imagine a big I beam steel girder breaking (which is pretty much what the spar of a wing is, only bigger.)

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