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Old 24th Jul 2013, 17:22
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Has anyone seen pictures of the damage to the inside of the aircraft? There's a chance the damage is pretty extensive, because, with the insulating effect of the composite, it won't transfer the heat to the outside, as quickly as aluminum. It's like the difference of holding a hot cup of coffee in a porcelain cup, instead of a tin cup. You could hold the porcelain cup with your hand, but the tin cup, you'd need to use the handle. In other words, an aluminum skin may have burned clean through, where as the composite skin, only showed burn marks on the outside, but didn't burn through. It may look worse on the interior of the plane than we imagine! Also, imagine the fumes, from the burning composite. Yuck!
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