referring to the OP, perhaps you could take down the plane by cutting the pencil-thick line in half and slowly feeding it into both engines?
i don’t know if thick spider silk would kill it (it could just be sliced into bits, rather than jamming the engine, perhaps) but it might pull out a turbine blade or two, which would be bad.
this, of course, assumes that pencil-thick spider silk would have a higher tensile strength than a nitrogen-frozen chicken. (referencing the recent thread on birds going into engines and “the poultry cannon”.)
Ahh, thanks. I see from your other link that the '47 has ** four engines with 60 000 lbs thrust each!** Breaking the spider-webbing rope estimated at 10 000 lbs would be a cinch for the pilot.
I suspect that the someone, somewhere applied a simple scaling factor to a fly stuck in a cob web, and then promulgated this stinker as a “fact”.
This kind of thing is why I don’t watch Discovery anymore…