Underwater pipe and pile cutter - GIF

[MeJasonT]

det cord thats the one. cordite

Apparently it was used to deliberately bring down the twin towers acording to cospiracy theorists.
one civil engineer made a film using slowmo footage of the tower collapse showing sequential minor detinations.

The super heated aluminium hitting water idea works for me to a certaing point - yes i have welded a few end mills in Alu.

This then takes my mind to the next snippet , ok its steering away from subsea tooling for a second

The scary bit is we have a section of a 747 in the science museum in London its 2 rings of the body about 10 inches apart with a criss crossing diaganal spar section.
you could snap this stuff with your hands - It is no suprise that the planes didnt make it all the way through the towers.

This isnt the london section but




just to put it into perspective this is a plane taking off at heathrow



and things like this should never happen



Lockerbie is only 15 miles from my home, I was about 3 miles from this site (on the A74) on the night offering assistance with my then employer. he used to install car phones and they were desperate for establishing communications during the incident.

There is a strange detail about the incident, one of the passengers died by drowning, dispite being in an explosion and falling hundreds of feet the cause of death was noted as drowning - they had ended up in a peat bog and drowned.