Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:52:16 +0000, Larry wrote:

Jere, I'm sorry for your trauma. But, alas, how DO you explain away the
lack of a huge airplane full of people, seats, luggage, titanium alloy
unburnable massive 6-ton engines that flew into the Pentagram and simply
vanished?

Titanium unburnable? It burns so well that they use it as a fuel in
fireworks. They used it as fuel in flashbulbs. You can light a fine
shaving with a match. All metals will burn, but some are harder to
light. In a good jet fuel fire the aluminum parts of the plane will
burn.


Indeed, for a really nice aluminum fire, recall the HMS Sheffield,
during the Falklands War.

One of the coolest things I've ever seen was an old LawnBoy lawnmower
burning up, that was back when they made the decks out of magnesium.

Cheers
Marty