On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:04, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:19, Tony Peden wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:08, David Megginson wrote: > > > Matthew Johnson writes: > > > > > > > Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, > > > > if anyone ever gets out alive... > > > > > > Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown by scheduled carriers > > > all the time, and usually no one suffers anything more than stress > > > from a delay or rerouting. Injuries and fatalities are very rare in > > > scheduled airline incidents or accidents. > > > > Yep, several failures/circumstances generally have to stack up in order > > for something bad to happen. > > > > Anyone see "Anatomy of a Disaster" about flight 587? Not sure how > technical it was, but the program seem to suggest that modern composite > fibers aren't as strong as aluminum.
I saw a bit of it ... they showed some testing they did in which they calculated the loads on the tail. They exceeded the design ultimate load, which means that any other material would have failed too. Material selection was, in this case, irrelevant. > > Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
