Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>it wasn't the Vanagon that was moving - it was the
>plane, which clipped the top of the Vanagon (either
on takeoff or
>landing, I forget which).

>> This should be obvious. The roof is STRONG. Forget
James Bond; car
roofs don't come off when the vehicle hits a low
object! It takes a
LOT more force than that.
--
Andrew Grebneff

I dunno ...

All things being equal (Vanagon weight, plane weight,
impact speed), regardless of whether the Vanagon hit
the plane or the plane hit the Vanagon, wouldn't the
results be the same?

As a kid, I remember riding my bike up to the
neighborhood junkyard and muscling my way through the
crowd of gawkers (of which I was now one) to see what
was left of a Ford LTD or some such huge American car
that had recently run a stop sign and driven beneath a
semi trailer, shearing off the entire roof. Along with
the heads of the four occupants.

It was a gruesome sight which I recalled years later
when I started driving ...

Jeffrey Earl
1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"

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