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Clames

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8. Maybe you should start watching Mythbusters.
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 07:59 PM
Nov 2012

See episode 10...

The coolest segment from this episode was the explosive airplane decompression segment. Jamie and Adam drove out to an airplane graveyard in the Mojave Desert and found an old passenger jet that they sealed up and pressurize. They also placed crash test dummy Buster in a passenger seat at ground zero for their series of experiments: 1) Firing a handgun through the skin of the aircraft. Result: nothing happened. Buster didn't even flinch. 2) Firing a handgun through the window of the aircraft. Result: same as before, nothing happened.

At this point the segment was getting really interesting for me, because it had dispelled my Hollywood-driven belief that a firing a gun on an aircraft would puncture the skin, which would then expand into a large hole, sucking out the evil villain or unidentified extra.

Having demonstrated that the conditions for the myth were false, Jamie and Adam went bigger to try and get the actual result:


http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/01/mythbusters_explosive_decompre.html
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