ex-LTU Lockheed L-1011 TriStar - "Cargo Hold Blast Test" - 1998
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2018
- Silent film from the archives of Mr Bill Morrow. Rare footage of an ex-LTU L-1011 being utilised for forward cargo hold explosion/blast testing at Mobile, AL, on January 16th, 1998. NOT PRETTY, or for the faint of heart, but still interesting. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairlinerfilms
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Sad to see an old 1011 die this way. Hopefully this resulted in improvements to air safety. I wonder if perhaps they went a little heavy on their explosives, its a little blurry on exactly where explosives/decompression end & begin. Even just a couple psi of cabin pressure in a volume like that has immense stored energy. We had huge web nets we wrapped around our Learjets for safety/containment when we had to "blow" the cabin for tests, leak checks.
Ladies and gentlemen who are still alive, there will be a delay before we are able to take off for Cleveland.
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"Darn it! Do not tell me we have had another explosion in the forward cargo compartment! We haven't left the gate and this makes 2 already... Stewardess, may I please have another martini?"
C-990 Buff 😂😂😂😂
Nah- “Individual passengers being displaced from the fragmenting husk just try to lower your coefficient and hopefully trajectory can finish your trip.”
That was really, really interesting. Thanks!
Thank you TSA for checking everything before we fly!
It was the D-AERC from The LTU....i knew this airplane and i worked on it on the Ground in Düsseldorf. The LTU was a Great Airlnie
Thanks for sharing.
Thank-you so very much for the post. I guess pilots are serious when they turn on the fasten seat belt signs, and wouldn't this be a fun video to add to IFE options during a flight?
Seriously: I know that this sort of testing is conducted all the time by various agencies. Offhand, I distinctly remember El Al modifying its aircraft to the point of them being just short of flying tanks for very obvious reasons. In fact, I believe El Al has the most stringent security measures of all carriers. For examples, I did a search on "El Al Reinforced Cargo Compartments" and obtained a wealth of information.
Of course, when it comes to my favorite aircraft testing videos, nothing compares to the remote controlled, packed with crash dummies with video cameras all over, fully fueled aircraft that are flown and then crashed into various test targets.
I've been on a lot of L-1011's (Delta had a few for the longer hauls) and never gave it a second thought. This is an eye-opener.
This was a test. It's not like they were prone to spontaneously explode.
This reminds me of pan am 103
Looks pressurized. That always make the explosions better! 😁
It was. I recall a documentary and it featured a little footage from this test and it was indeed pressurized.
A high energy event in a unpressurized aircraft is the mosquito while in a a pressurized craft it’s a horse fly.
holy crap
Sure was eye opening. Yikes.
The signs on the lower galley ovens said DO NOT HEAT COOKIES dang it!!!
It's called "quick scrapping". Much quicker than using a bucket to tear it apart.
Thoughts and prayers.
If that’s satirical then, dang that was GOOD!
That 1011 Explodes cargo door!
I wonder how much explosives they used?
Pan Am 103, 31,000 ft flying at 500mph..
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Was this a test for air crash investigators during an investigation?
It was testing if harmonic amplification had the practical effects on fuselage rupture that mathematical models were showering.
I believe the amplitude of increase damage seen in mathematical models indicated that each time a shockwave passed through a hollow compartment in a fully pressurized aircraft it could split into 2 that would bounce around progressively multiplying until they all would coincidentally harmonize into a massive wave that would slice and dice the fuselage skin.
Notice how the first rupture is a jet of flame downwards but in the end the entire top roof above the window belts peels back and around?
It proved harmonic amplification.
I know that the Pan Am Flight 103 final report discussed in depth harmonic amplification and the hollow compartments (cargo hold, dado vents, lower passenger cabin, upper passenger deck and vents in between) was the main cause of damage instead of the direct explosion. The investigation was very interested in a very large section of fuselage skin that peeled off but it was on the direct opposite side of the aircraft (looking aft: the explosion was at 5 o’clock and the skin that peeled off was at 11 o’clock) but the floor of the main deck was relatively intact and spared from damage.
The loss of structural support below and above the window belts caused the front of PA103 to collapse and separated down and to the right.
Is this what it looks like when a bomb went off in a plane mid-air like pan am 103 and air India 182 ?
Yes.
Passengers be like “why are we delayed?”
Why they destroyed an L1011?, there are only a few remaining
Aviaator LHR I know, but it's so sad to see how this plane is disappearing for things like this
@Goran He means it would have been more respectful to use one of the mothed upped DC-10s that substantially outnumber L-1011s