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Old 06-23-2010, 04:15 PM
SaQSoN SaQSoN is offline
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Originally Posted by KaHzModAn View Post
so you hit the ground at maximum speed ? you know its around 250km/h for the fastest planes right ? even an I-16 can go almost twice that speed ! some WW2 planes can land at the max speed of a late WW1 plane... so why should it instantly be desintegrated ?
Because here's what happens to a steel car, which crashes into a wall at 100 km/h:



So, why a wood&fabric plane would bounce off the ground after hitting it with the same speed?