07-07-2011, 02:25 AM
Fetzer, you understanding of what the collision of a jet plane with the steel box columns and spandrels would look like is rather bizarre. Are you trying to assert that the columns would not deform or break and most of the plane would bounce off in "intact" sections?... That only the "weaker" glass of the facade would yield to the plane's fuselage?
Suppose you had a balloon of 10,000 gallon and it was moving at 400 mph and it slammed into the towers... no aluminum skin or hardened engines or landing gear... just a huge rubber bladder filled with water or fuel . What would happen? Would the 400 mph volume of liquid damage the facade columns? Would it break them or bounce off and disperse into a mist. Or perhaps a both? Would the shape of the balloon matter?
Perhaps you can explain what your understanding of such a collision would look like.
Suppose you had a balloon of 10,000 gallon and it was moving at 400 mph and it slammed into the towers... no aluminum skin or hardened engines or landing gear... just a huge rubber bladder filled with water or fuel . What would happen? Would the 400 mph volume of liquid damage the facade columns? Would it break them or bounce off and disperse into a mist. Or perhaps a both? Would the shape of the balloon matter?
Perhaps you can explain what your understanding of such a collision would look like.