kwc blog: Comments on "Mythbusters: Sinking Ships, Goldfish, 1812 Overture + Trombone"

Comment on "Mythbusters: Sinking Ships, Goldfish, 1812 Overture + Trombone"

Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:49:30 -0800

Oh well, I guess I won't place that shape charge in the RV-9 when you're done :)

BTW - my TiVo's letting me down - it keeps missing that episode. According to the schedule it's not on again in the next two weeks, so I'll have to wait for the next cycle.

- kwc

Comment on "Mythbusters: Sinking Ships, Goldfish, 1812 Overture + Trombone"

Mon, 01 Mar 2004 04:42:05 -0800

Unfortunately, damage of that magnitude to the mid fuselage is not survivable IMHO.
They lost the connection between the cabin floor and the fuselage, and the outer skin looked to be torn at least half was around the fuselage. Both the skin and the skeleton are important to supporting the loads on the aircraft, and they lost both of them in that area.

Add to that the aerodynamic load in that part of the airplane is coming upward to pass over the wing, aiming right at the gaping hole.

Anyway, they're showing the jet car on repeat pretty regularly, set your tivo appropriately. It's one of the great moments in television, in my distorted book...

- paul

Comment on "Mythbusters: Sinking Ships, Goldfish, 1812 Overture + Trombone"

Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:10:08 -0800

meta and I were wondering if Jamie was 80 or something, because he surely didn't look it, and it didn't seem possible that he could have accomplished all that, and built up all the expertise and portfolio for a special effects company. meta also suggested that at some point in the season, they may do a mythbusting on Jamie's history :).

The airplane-vs-handgun is perhaps my favorite episode yet, though I'm still waiting to catch the jet car episode. They've shown clips from the jet car episode in other episodes, but I'm not sure that they've actually aired it yet.

The airplane-vs-handgun episode was both good and bad for viewers. It demonstrates that even blowing out an entire window isn't enough to bring a plane down. However, the damage that the shape charge did was pretty impressive. Still, they also showed that planes have landed with even that much damage.

BTW, my entry on the airplane episode are here:
http://kwc.org/blog/archives/000929.html

- kwc

Comment on "Mythbusters: Sinking Ships, Goldfish, 1812 Overture + Trombone"

Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:34:03 -0800

When they started rattling off Jamie's accomplishments, I started to wonder if they were kidding!

Did you catch the recent airplane-vs-handgun one? Very interesting...and I'm still amazed they aired the part where they blew the entire side of the plane off with an explosive the size of a baseball...

- paul