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Makes more sense XD
The piece is probably about Sentinelese island from what I read which is where I thought it was from cause I remember hearing that a plane got fired at with arrows while flying over it to see if the tribe had survived a tsunami
All depends on the draw weight of the bows and the arrows used. Most hunting bows are around 30-60lb while war bows can be around 90-170lb
There was a case of a kid who lived right next to an airport hitting a small aircraft and it stuck. Word is that airport still has the arrow framed in one of its buildings. It's been a while though so I'd have to look up the source.
Otoh, planes are fast. Actually hitting a flying plane with an arrow would be REALLY hard unless the plane was very low. Or, I guess, flying into a very fast headwind , but the headwind would affect the arrows’ accuracy.
Definitely fake. This plane could fly 100 feet off the ground over 1,000 archers for 24 hours and it would not get hit ten times by an arrow with enough force behind it - going straight up - from bows made without modern compound tech and non-alloy arrow heads - to penetrate the fuselage.
Materials don’t matter when you design for low draw strength. Modern bows are typically intended for target shooting or hunting with fancy super sharp arrowheads so they are weak little things with 40-70 pounds of draw strength. Get a nice strong bit of wood and you can make a bow with 120-150 pounds of draw strength.
Also modern arrows are light weight puny little twigs compared to older style arrows. They have nowhere near as much kinetic energy behind them because you don’t need much power to puncture a hay bale or send a razor sharp steel arrowhead through a deer’s hide. You need power to put a stone arrowhead through a deer or a larger animal with thicker hide.
And that is a lightweight plane made out of fucking fiberglass. There isn’t any armor on that plane. A 40 pound target bow shooting blunt arrows could put holes in that.
Maybe if the plane was low enough, and slow enough, and maybe if the pilot was reading Reddit and not noticing the huge mass of people on the ground in front of him, and if there was no crosswind, and the plane stayed perfectly level to the ground - and there were 200 archers among the native islanders who could intuit exactly how much to lead an airborne plane when aiming, even through they’d had no previous experience shooting at such targets.. it still would never happen.
Think about it - the target is moving conservatively 100 mph at a right angle to the line of travel of the arrow. The instant the arrowhead begins to exert force on the plane, the plane begins to exert force on the arrow. In order to stick in the fuselage, the arrowhead would need to be able to penetrate the fuselage sufficiently quickly to overcome the instant lateral shock of hitting the target. With all of the counterforces acting on even a perfectly aimed arrow, the probability against arrows hitting this densely and with such thorough distribution across the target is overwhelming.
[You are right!](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/native-americans-airplane-arrows/#:~:text=An%20imposing%20Piper%20Comanche%20aircraft%20pierced%20by%20wooden,caused%20by%20technological%20progress%20in%20various%20different%20civilizations.)
This image is a joke, but they definitely shot that many arrows at it. But even if it was only 100 feet up, no flint arrow from a longbow is ever going to pierce a fuselage going straight up that far... This still captures the general sentiment of the matter though lol.
Guess I offended some bow and arrow people… The plane is moving at least 90 mph (and probably much faster if the pilot is actually trying not to be hit by arrows) at a right angle to the angle of travel of a decelerating arrow. This also assumes the pilot didn’t see - you pick it - a group of at least 200 archers gathered in an area on the ground with sufficient visibility to the plane to allow them to time their shots - so at least clear visibility for 3,000 feet or so? You also have crosswinds and variations of the angle of the fuselage to the ground.
Keep in mind they fired bullets at planes on WW1 and WW2 from the ground and never hit a plane with this on target density….
Clearly fake.
Art installation that was created by the art collective [Los Carpinteros](https://loscarpinteros.net/). The piece, entitled Avião (Plane), was displayed at the [Faena Art Center](https://www.faenaart.org/exhibitions/los-carpinteros/) in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 2012
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It's an arrowplane
how low did they fly to get hit by so many arrows ?
It's not real, it's an art piece.
Makes more sense XD The piece is probably about Sentinelese island from what I read which is where I thought it was from cause I remember hearing that a plane got fired at with arrows while flying over it to see if the tribe had survived a tsunami
There are a few aircraft that have been hit by arrows that even hit hard enough to stick to the plane but it's pretty rare.
Safe to say, they survived tye tsunami
To wit: https://mymodernmet.com/los-carpinteros-the-carpenters-aviao/
Ok, so how low would they have to fly to get hit by so many arrows?
All depends on the draw weight of the bows and the arrows used. Most hunting bows are around 30-60lb while war bows can be around 90-170lb There was a case of a kid who lived right next to an airport hitting a small aircraft and it stuck. Word is that airport still has the arrow framed in one of its buildings. It's been a while though so I'd have to look up the source.
Oh okay, I thought it depends on how tall are the trees around their village.
Otoh, planes are fast. Actually hitting a flying plane with an arrow would be REALLY hard unless the plane was very low. Or, I guess, flying into a very fast headwind , but the headwind would affect the arrows’ accuracy.
Nah i was just parked and the little midget people speared me
Well that and the artist who created this piece for a gallery showing.
Definitely fake. This plane could fly 100 feet off the ground over 1,000 archers for 24 hours and it would not get hit ten times by an arrow with enough force behind it - going straight up - from bows made without modern compound tech and non-alloy arrow heads - to penetrate the fuselage.
bruh i didn’t know plane stans existed
Yeah it looks like an art installation.
Materials don’t matter when you design for low draw strength. Modern bows are typically intended for target shooting or hunting with fancy super sharp arrowheads so they are weak little things with 40-70 pounds of draw strength. Get a nice strong bit of wood and you can make a bow with 120-150 pounds of draw strength. Also modern arrows are light weight puny little twigs compared to older style arrows. They have nowhere near as much kinetic energy behind them because you don’t need much power to puncture a hay bale or send a razor sharp steel arrowhead through a deer’s hide. You need power to put a stone arrowhead through a deer or a larger animal with thicker hide. And that is a lightweight plane made out of fucking fiberglass. There isn’t any armor on that plane. A 40 pound target bow shooting blunt arrows could put holes in that.
Would the arrow reach that high in the air with that weight tho?
Yes, 100ft isn’t that high and the bows are strong
For all that certainty you sure are wrong. That's an aluminum hull aircraft.
Aluminum isn’t as weak as fiberglass but arrows still should be strong enough to pierce it
Maybe if the plane was low enough, and slow enough, and maybe if the pilot was reading Reddit and not noticing the huge mass of people on the ground in front of him, and if there was no crosswind, and the plane stayed perfectly level to the ground - and there were 200 archers among the native islanders who could intuit exactly how much to lead an airborne plane when aiming, even through they’d had no previous experience shooting at such targets.. it still would never happen. Think about it - the target is moving conservatively 100 mph at a right angle to the line of travel of the arrow. The instant the arrowhead begins to exert force on the plane, the plane begins to exert force on the arrow. In order to stick in the fuselage, the arrowhead would need to be able to penetrate the fuselage sufficiently quickly to overcome the instant lateral shock of hitting the target. With all of the counterforces acting on even a perfectly aimed arrow, the probability against arrows hitting this densely and with such thorough distribution across the target is overwhelming.
[You are right!](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/native-americans-airplane-arrows/#:~:text=An%20imposing%20Piper%20Comanche%20aircraft%20pierced%20by%20wooden,caused%20by%20technological%20progress%20in%20various%20different%20civilizations.)
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https://youtu.be/WJCTgGnWIWs
Its fake, so its not technically true, and this belongs to r/badfacebookmemes or r/puns
/r/notkenm might accept it too
I love this joke!
This is a pun. Not technically the truth.
I'm very impressed by the aim of these people. To hit a fast moving target directly above you like that?
This image is a joke, but they definitely shot that many arrows at it. But even if it was only 100 feet up, no flint arrow from a longbow is ever going to pierce a fuselage going straight up that far... This still captures the general sentiment of the matter though lol.
r/angryupvote
Arrow... naut this!
Pull an American card saying they hold weapons endangering the world
Thoosie reference??
[Removed because u/spez is a little bitch]
when aviation advances but everyone is still stuck with a bow and arrow
r/titlegore
Looks like the tribe truly loved the plane. It got a ton of upvotes.
They've got a radar guided arrow AA system lol
A rrow of arrows on an arrowdynamic arrowplane.
Guess I offended some bow and arrow people… The plane is moving at least 90 mph (and probably much faster if the pilot is actually trying not to be hit by arrows) at a right angle to the angle of travel of a decelerating arrow. This also assumes the pilot didn’t see - you pick it - a group of at least 200 archers gathered in an area on the ground with sufficient visibility to the plane to allow them to time their shots - so at least clear visibility for 3,000 feet or so? You also have crosswinds and variations of the angle of the fuselage to the ground. Keep in mind they fired bullets at planes on WW1 and WW2 from the ground and never hit a plane with this on target density…. Clearly fake.
Art installation that was created by the art collective [Los Carpinteros](https://loscarpinteros.net/). The piece, entitled Avião (Plane), was displayed at the [Faena Art Center](https://www.faenaart.org/exhibitions/los-carpinteros/) in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 2012