Re: The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

2001-11-15 Thread Petro
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 10:39 AM, Tim May wrote: > > An LME solution smeared along wing or panel sections could cause > catastrophic failure during high stress flight phases, e.g., takeoffs > and, to a lesser extent, landings. We ran a few scenarios about how > easy it would be brin

Re: The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

2001-11-14 Thread tcmay
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 05:43 PM, Eric Murray wrote: > OTOH, LME requires the metals to be liquid or close to it. Even tin > has a melting point around 500 degrees F, and it's a pretty > low melting point metal. > Engine mounting parts might get that hot, but not the exterior surface

Re: The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

2001-11-14 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:49:34PM -0800, John Young wrote: > How would the LME work on the interior structure of the plane? > The skin has little structural strength but does streamline the On modern cars and aircraft the skin is a structural part. There was a post WWII DeHaviland (the Comet I

RE: The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

2001-11-14 Thread John Young
How would the LME work on the interior structure of the plane? The skin has little structural strength but does streamline the structure and I suppose if it was weakened to peel away, turbulence could shear structural bolts or welds. The tail section of 587 appeared to be cleanly detached from the

RE: The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

2001-11-14 Thread Blanc
Said Tim May: :-- ZOG lovers like Dershowitz are calling for torturing suspects until :they confess : :(One of our fun ideas in the Sierras was that someone should kidnap :Dershowitz, torture him for 5 days, release the tape of his various :"confessions," and then dump his body in front of the Su

The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

2001-11-14 Thread Tim May
Some of us were talking at our camp in the Sierras last weekend about the efforts to silence William Cooper, culminating in his death in a shootout with LEOs dressed as street punks. One of Bill's early interests, after his retirement from the armed services, was in how "Liquid Metal Embrittle