There have been many incidents of airplanes being targeted with bombs that were exploded inflight, one doesn’t have to look too far back in history to find an example of such a horrendous event, but an international team of scientists have come up with a revolutionary new material which may bombproof airplanes and protect against such incidents. The bombproof material would line the luggage hold so even if a device explodes in someone’s checked baggage the plane would not be blown up while it’s in the sky.
The material is called Fly-Bag, it’s a flexible bombproof material which will line the luggage hold. Fly-Bag is made from layers of heat resistant and very high strength materials like Aramid, which is a synthetic fiber that’s used in body armor.
It’s flexibility enables it to contain the power of a blast as well as the blast fragments that might fly as a result of it, the material is being developed by a group of European companies like Blastech with partners joining in from countries like Sweden, Italy, Germany, Spain and Greece.
Fly-Bag was initially tested at the blast laboratory of the University of Sheffield, the test proved that the prototype worked well, the team then conducted real-life controlled tests in luggage holds of an Airbus A321 and Boeing 747. The video shows just how well the bombproof material works, giving us hope that perhaps in the future it may get much more harder for the unsavory elements to cause death and destruction by placing a bomb in an airplane’s hold.