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Old 4th Mar 2010, 10:57
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AnthonyGA
 
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Mythbusters pressurised an airframe, then fired various guns through windows and the like, before finally blowing it up.
Yes, but they did that on the ground, where the ratio of inside to outside pressure was much smaller than it would be at altitude, and the outside air density was much higher, so their tests are not necessarily representative of what would happen at high altitudes.
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