On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:07:28 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

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Agree if all you have is 8 machine guns, 50 yards is good

300mph = 440 feet per second. 50 yds would be covered in approx 1/3
second. You'd hit the wreckage

Only if it disregards the laws of physics and stops dead!

Lot's of it effectively will though won't it? Ok, not the heavy
compact stuff like an engine but large areas of fuselage and wing will
as good as if presented side on to the wind?

Like, I wonder how much forward motion a skydiver maintains when they
jump out of an aeroplane ... and how say an empty wooden crate might
act by comparison?

Even if something only shows to 50 mph by the time the other plane
gets's there, I'm not sure what chance the pilot would have of
avoiding it or how much less damage it would do if it wasn't moving at
all.

Hitting something at 250 or 300 mph etc?

And if something blows up in the air in front of you, some of it could
end up stationary if it's blown backwards at 300 mph?

Cheers, T i m