 Too far off track for TSA thread
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klugesmith
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Wed Dec 15 2010, 12:35AM
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Renesis wrote ... Steve McConner wrote ... Bored Chemist wrote ...
Because everybody knows it's a good idea to fire guns on board an aircraft.
Mythbusters "proved" that bullet holes in the fuselage won't down a plane.  But hitting wiring, hydraulics, fuel lines or a computer can. 
There's an old story about consultants in World War 2,
hired to determine where to add armor plates to bomber airplanes.
They surveyed the bullet holes in bombers that had returned from battle.
Places where none of those planes had holes, were good places to add armor.
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Patrick
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that is a good point klugesmith. i never would have seen it that way.
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