Another angle:
Don’t build em like they used to.
either that or they don’t make jet fuel like they used to
in before “um, actually, the B-25 was a propeller-driven aircraft and therefore obviously did not use jet fuel”
I mean that and a b25 weighs like 40k lbs and a 767 weighs like 400k lbs, and flies twice as fast.
Jet fuel can’t melt steel memes.
But chememetrails can!
I heard they made hypnotoad gay!
but the resulting fire can absolutely diminish their load capacity, making them frail and pliable like boiled spaghetti
Mom’s spaghetti?
Perhaps counter-intuitively, if your pockets are full of Mom’s spaghetti, you’re more likely to be structurally sound.
Crashed due to low visibility in fog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash
This confirms Things were more solid in the past?
Possible. Though a B-25 is smaller and much slower than a 737.
Also weighs much less.
Speed matters more than mass when calculating kinetic energy. A 767 is much, much faster than a B-25.
While you’re right, the MTOW of a B-26 is around 17 tons, the 767 is 150-200 tons.
So there is a factor of around 10 between them, so if the 767 flies 3 times as fast - which it doesn’t, the B-26 cruises at more than 0.35 Mach at close to sea level, and the 767 is not supersonic - that means that the factor from the speed can’t be more than about 3 squared, so 9.
So the factors from the weight and the speed are roughly equal IMO.
Speed matters more than mass when calculating kinetic energy.
Are you sure about that? An air rifle shooting supersonic aluminum pellets has considerably less kinetic energy than a .22 LR bullet, because of the weight of the bullet. Some air rifles actually shoot their projectile faster than a .22, but they have like 10x less energy upon impact.
I’m no mathlete but looking up the formula for kinetic energy it’s K.E. = 1/2 m v^2 so I’m pretty sure velocity is going to have exponentially greater effect on kinetic energy than mass.
I guess it’s because of the huge difference in weight that we see such a difference in kinetic energy from pellet guns, even though velocity has an exponential impact on the energy. A standard pellet weighs under 14 grains, and a .22 LR bullet weighs 40 grains. Thanks for sharing the formula though. I didn’t realize how huge of a contribution velocity makes for kinetic energy, and I’ll definitely look for a faster rifle whenever I upgrade my air rifle.
Not to mention compared to a 767.
A 767-200, like the one that hit the tower in 2001, carries roughly 3 Fully loaded B-25s worth of FUEL alone.
B-25: 33,000lbs @ 225 mph
vs
767-200: 300,000 lbs @ 500 mph
so, roughly 10x the weight at 2x the speed
If those numbers are correct, that’s 40x the energy.
40x the kinetic energy. Now consider the chemical energy stored in sufficient fuel for a coast to coast flight of that weight and speed.
rough approximation, but I did double check the numbers.
ie we don’t know the exact weight of the bomber, but that’s its average laden weight, could be lighter without bombs
in 2001 the second plane hit faster than the first and I believe the first is guessed from footage but the second is from the black box?
Not the bomber.
Opposite. This confirms planes back in the day were flimsy as shit.
Those bombers back in the day needs to be made of lighter materials so they could carry those bombs and ammos for the . 30 machine guns.
Should have used jet fuel!!! I hear it can melt steel beans
I thought it was that it “can’t” melt steel beams
Beams? Of course not.
Beans? Absolutely.
Wake up, sheeple.
That’s what they want you to think
Empire State Building: “Oh no, anyways…”
On the morning of 9/11, after the first plane had hit the first tower, my dad, a news junkie, called me to tell me a plane hit the WTC, but I was busy with work and I told him I couldn’t talk but I hoped it wasn’t too bad. I assumed it was some sort of accident like this (which I already knew about).
Then he called a little while later to tell me that a second plane had hit the other tower…
I’m curious how they went about repairing this. Do they cut out sections and weld it together or what?
I don’t think they did repair this. That plane looks like a write off.
Fun fact they actually was able to repurpose it it is now part of the Empire State Building, recycling at its finest.
