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[Daryl Richardson <h.d.richardson(--nospam--at)shaw.ca>]

Bravo, Charlie!!

	Talk about criticizing the design engineers causes me to wonder what
would have happened if both planes hit the same tower (or all three
planes even).

	I for one think all of the engineers (and there were several involved
throughout the complete design, fabrication and erection process) did an
excellent job.

				Best regards,

				H. Daryl Richardson

Carter, Charlie wrote:
> 
> >Is anyone seriously thinking that these
> >two buildings were as solid or as able
> >to resist a plane as the Empire
> >State Building with its superior redundancy?
> 
> I do believe the WTC towers were extremely redundant. Better? Worse? Who
> knows? We're all just guessing -- unless someone has actually done some
> analysis before professing. If you have, I'd love to see how you modelled
> the plane impact, damage and fire effects. Respectfully, I'd call the WTC
> towers innovative, not cheap, though reality and perception are at work
> here. One man's sausage is another man's dog food.
> 
> The B-25 that hit the ESB was just about as long as a 767 is tall. It was
> lost in fog and running on fumes when it struck. Plus, it was moving at
> about one-fifth the speed.
> 
> Being as they are not normally designed for it, I think all bets are off
> when planes hit buildings. We certainly shouldn't be criticising our
> colleagues who did everything they could right (and did a lot more than the
> Code required them to do to boot) when things like this happen. All that
> does is feed the media appetite for hogwash and controversy.
> 
> Charlie
> 
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