Re: [MV] Terrorist Attack

From: Jim Webster (jimweb@simonides.org)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 17:17:53 PDT


John A. Hern Jr wrote:

> Also, the skin should stand a bullet hole without catastrophic failure,
> otherwise it would couldn't survive all those rivet holes for the rivets
> that hold the thing together in the first place.

Yes but the rivet holes are full of rivets and that makes a big
difference. Bullets invariable cause larger holes and they do not fill
them up after passing through.

TTFN
Jim
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