"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Spurious Response wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:18:54 +0100, Eeyore
wrote:

Especially when the engine pod is totally detached from the fuselage /
wing and there's
obviously no fuel lines rmaining. I simply couldn't keep a straight
face. Actually it was
more of a grimace. Are Americans really so stupid that they accept this
kind of nonsence
without objection ?

You have to watch the episode that came later that actually had video of
the crash. along with the reason for it.

The wings were literally ripped off the plane, and the plane itself was
ripped apart, and the whole mess was being pulled toward the Island.

Viola! No fuel laden wings to cause burning explosive frenzies!

You're an idiot.

Every large passenger jet has a fuel tank *between the wings*. Boeing call
it the CWT (centre
wing tank). It was the CWT that exploded on TWA800.

Graham


Sorry, I know it's only low-level fiction, but I loved "Lost" right from the
off. It's just escapism really - a bit frustrating in some episodes where
everything changes just as you feel that you've got the measure of it - but
the whole trick is just to suspend your belief in science and reality, and
enjoy it for what it is, an intriguing bit of fantasy drama. Now Harry
Potter. That's a different matter. How could anyone ever believe that a boy
and his chums could fly without a Cessna underneath them, or that a huge
train could hide in a station, and not be spotted by military satellites
that would want to know what it's up to. Ludicrous ...

BTW, I think that 100k RPM is a little fast for a commercial airliner
turbofan engine. More like a third to a half of that max at take off.

Arfa