Air Date: January 18, 2006
A plane’s tail section in a widely circulated photo was shredded by an angry wife with a chainsaw.
busted
The slices made by the chainsaw were jagged while the ones seen in the photo were clean slices.
A plane’s tail section in a widely circulated photo was shredded by a runaway taxiing plane’s propeller.
confirmed
The full-scale test done with a run-away engine and stand-in tail section produced a result that was almost identical to the shredded plane seen in the photo.
Fire can be started using the friction caused by rubbing two sticks together.
confirmed
While the Build Team - in their own words - "cheated" and used a drill and some gun powder, with a stick for a bit, the friction from the drill did light the tinder on fire.
Fire can be started using a bullet.
confirmed
Earlier tests using modern weaponry (and smokeless powder) were unproductive. Tory then modified an old musket and replaced the bullet with a piece of cloth. When the gun was fired, the black powder ignited the cloth, which then ignited the tinder into which it was shot.
Fire can be started using a soda can bottom polished with chocolate.
confirmed
Chocolate was used to buff out the wear marks and ink marking and give the can bottom a reflective shine that could focus light and produce heat. While the can was not able to light tinder that was held by hand, the rig easily lit when the tinder was secured on a makeshift rig that kept it from moving.
Fire can be started using a steel wool and the ends of a battery.
confirmed
It took several tries but the ends of the battery eventually produced a spark that lit the steel wool on fire. A clip from a survivalist TV show also showed with Ron Hood this myth was confirmed. This is also a requirement for the American Boy Scout Wilderness Survival Merit badge.
Fire can be started using ice.
confirmed
Kari used a globe of specially produced clear ice about half the size of a bowling ball to produce smoke and later fire when she used it as a refractive lens.
There was a video online of a person who had a water balloon and started a fire with that.
June 25, 2007 at 3:27 PMI believe he used it as a sort of lens.
My chemistry teacher had a 9 volt battery in his lab coat pocket one day while he was demonstrating an activity using steel wool. He unintentionally put the steel wool into the pocket where the battery was and caused the pocket to become inflamed.
July 7, 2007 at 4:16 PMLes Stoud on the television show Survivorman lit a fire using a rifle round containing smokeless powder
August 13, 2007 at 6:18 PMI heard that you can make a bomb by lighting a fire at the base of some GROWING bamboo, the air pockets inside heat up the explode.
August 18, 2007 at 10:51 PMI’ve used two sticks to start a fire when I was a scout leader. It’s much easier to do the method using a stick with some sort of cap on top of it like a wet piece of wood too shield your hand, a shoelace made into a bow using another stick looped once around the fire starting stick, then a flat dry piece of wood with a notch in it and some dry bark or even hair. It took about 5 minutes to get a decent spark but it works. The 2 sticks method took just to damn long and wasted a lot of energy.
December 30, 2007 at 6:33 PMThe plane in the photo shown in this episode was a training plane owned by The University of South Australia based at Parafield Airport
May 5, 2008 at 5:44 AMin Adelaide,South Australia.I don’t know how it happened but can confirm it was the result of a runaway plane, as I responded to this incident with the emergency services at the time.
when i was a student at the northern territory institute of aviation studies my teacher told us a story about how he had worked on a plane that this had happened to, he had photos of him working on it. it was the same plane! hahaha was good to see that this sort of stuff makes it over seas
May 5, 2008 at 7:09 PM