What Happens If…

An airplane hits a concrete wall???

I’ve been looking for this video for a while and finally ran across it…

This video is for anyone still wondering what happened to the planes that hit the World Trade Towers and Pentagon on 9/11.

When you view this clip you’ll get a good feel for what happens to an airplane when it hits a concrete wall.

You may have seen the Michael Moore web site that asks the question; ‘If it’s true that a Boeing airliner hit the Pentagon, what happened to all the parts of it? Why did we not find more pieces of it? Where did all that mass GO?’

Well, for those who question what happened to ‘all the mass of that airplane,’ please watch. It’s an Air Force engineering test of a concrete barrier that was to surround a nuclear reactor dome, to see if it would indeed survive an aerial attack.

With the high speed cameras rolling, they attached an F-4 Phantom to the sled and then pumped up the speed to 500 MPH, and… ‘What happens when an ‘Unstoppable Force’ meets an ‘Immovable Object?” Watch in slow motion as the F-4 turns to vapor.

I’m not sure if this was at Los Alimos or at Edwards, but it is pretty stunning… It was done at White Sands, NM…

H/T to Hat Trick.

Now look at the Video…

I bet you’ll play it more than once before you believe it…

Comments

What Happens If… — 13 Comments

  1. Seen it before but it’s still fascinating. Pity the waste of the Phantom jet though. I’d cheerfully have given it a good home.

  2. Airplanes are light, flimsy things.

    Concrete walls are, well, concrete.

    I’ll bet on the wall every time.

  3. As Alan says, when compared to the things they are hitting, airplanes are very lightly constructed. Of course YOU know that, having spent much of your life in them.

    OTOH, “lightly constructed” is not a term that comes to mind when I think of that tub of offal named Michael Moore. Except when it comes to intellect, of course.

  4. And pesky facts disprove the uber-left yet again!

    Why wouldn’t the plane vaporize? It’s made of light alloys like Al and Mg. And its a hollow tube!

  5. Me- you, me and a few others… The gas bill would have been hell though…

    Alan- Yep…

    drjim- it does!

    HT- Thanks! I wasn’t sure!

    TOTW- Good point 🙂

    PE- yep, those pesky facts again…

    JR- You’re welcome to!

    Fuzzy- Yep