What happens when an F4 Phantom jet crashes into a wall at 500 MPH?

[thewayne]

Specifically, a wall designed like the walls of nuclear reactors? Well, the jet vaporizes.

Pretty cool vid. You see the wall move, but there's one caveat: the jet had no fuel and no engines.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/11/video-jet-plane.html

Comments

[ateji.livejournal.com]

If there's no fuel and no engines, what's the point in slamming it into a wall? Sheesh, no sense of theatrics, people.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. They could have easily packed a few hundred pounds of explosives in the back seat of the F4, it's a tandem inline cockpit! They'll simply have to go back and do it again, but not until bringing in the Myth Busters.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Bringing in the Mythbusters will just make it all kinds of fun. Hooray!

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That is one of the shows that I genuinely miss not seeing, it was always all sorts of fun. What saddens me is that we got the 2007/2008 schedule for the Albuquerque theatre, and it had Myth Busters on the sched! It's long since over, but I always wondered what a show by them would have been like.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

They sent the interns to my school at one point for a contest, but I don't remember hearing anything about the outcome. Oh well. :\

[silveradept]

So the wall was the thing being tested, and it held up fairly nicely. Pretty, but no earth-shattering kaboom.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

My thoughts precisely! Someone must have taken the explosive space modulator!