Boeing 737-300 landing gear snaps off-plane skids for a mile

[Skuzzy]

Get it hot enough and it burns pretty good.

Makes a good solid rocket fuel.

[Golfer]

Ok, so what do you call the bits of red hot metal flying through the air off the gear doors and skin as the aircraft slides down the runway?

Sparques?

[colmbo]

Get it hot enough and it burns pretty good.

I watched a Super Cub on floats spin out of a turn shortly after takeoff and crashed with a big fireball.  He was carrying 4 5 gallon metal cans of gas behind his seat.  Post fire the floats were reduced to an ashen outline on the ground, virtually totally consumed by the fire.

[DaveBB]

Aluminum will burn.  Shoot, throw an aluminum can in a hot campfire and it will burn.

But I have not seen it spark.  Even when grinding on it.

[GScholz]

Planes are made from all kinds of metals and materials, including steel and magnesium. However, the runway itself and the paint used can be flammable when heated up by friction. Here's a video of the Airbus that landed with a locked nose wheel. Notice how the fire intensifies every time the nose wheel hits the runway paint.

[NatCigg]

now i don't know what your talking about but any pilot that can put that monster on a stripe of paint is a good pilot in my book.