It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by Realtruth
Zaphod58,
Since you are trying to establish credibility here, why not post exactly how you know about planes. Like your training, certs, schooling, work relations to planes. In my years of working construction I know every term, slang and jargon in the field of my expertise, so people can't BS.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
No, I wasn't in the military, but yes I was a ramp rat. I did various jobs to help out crew chiefs or specialists, or whatever. Sometimes I helped pump fuel, other times I was in there turning wrenches with the maintenance guys, other times I was just watching in case they needed an extra set of hands or eyes, or someone to read the T.O. books to them while they worked.
Originally posted by Realtruth
Originally posted by FredT
One tidbit in regards to colors on aircraft. There has been mention of Green colors etc.
An aircraft is often delivered "green" This is in reference to a coating applied at the assembly point to protect the aluminum skin untill the paint is applied.
A lot of cruise missiles are green too and most military ordinance anywhere in the world is most likely green. I am not saying the US attacked itself, but I am saying there is a possibility that it was an outside cruise missile.
www.usswisconsin.org...
[edit on 18-3-2007 by Realtruth]
Originally posted by darkbluesky
It doesn't matter what background anyone comes from in these forums. These forums are intended as places where anyone can ask questions, propose theories, or state opinions.
Originally posted by Watchful1
*cough*globalhawk*cough*
Originally posted by darkbluesky
Global Hawk: Powered by a Rolls Royce AE 3007: Total diameter = 38.5" (Fan). Estimated fan disk diameter = 12", compressor disk = 14", turbine disk= 15"........Compressor disk recovered at Pentagon = 26".....RR RB-211 compressor disk = 26".
“If the aircraft that struck the Pentagon was a Boeing 757-200 owned by American Airlines, then it would have to be a Rolls Royce engine,” Mark Sullivan, spokesman for Pratt & Whitney, told AFP.
John W. Brown, spokesman for Rolls Royce (Indianapolis), had previously told AFP: “It is not a part from any Rolls Royce engine that I’m familiar with, and certainly not the AE 3007H made here in Indy.”
The AE 3007 engines are used in small commuter jets such as the Cessna Citation; the AE 3007H is also used in the military’s unmanned aircraft, the Global Hawk. The Global Hawk is manufactured by Northrop Grumman’s subsidiary Ryan Aeronautical, which it acquired from Teledyne, Inc. in July 1999.
If the government version that an American Airlines 757-200 hit the Pentagon is accurate, then the object in the photo would have to be from a Rolls Royce RB211-535 turbofan engine.
Originally posted by johnlear
I can think of plenty of crashed airplanes with RB-211's that the perps could have gotten their hands on and carted into the Pentagon the day before 911.
They may have been stupid, but not stupid enough to take pictures of the turbine engine of the Globalhawk or whatever missile they used to bomb the Pentagon. They would have taken carefully staged pictures of a compressor disc off of an RB-211 so that darkbluesky could gleefully post as proof his croc that a Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon.
Originally posted by johnlear
I can think of plenty of crashed airplanes with RB-211's that the perps could have gotten their hands on and carted into the Pentagon the day before 911.
They may have been stupid, but not stupid enough to take pictures of the turbine engine of the Globalhawk or whatever missile they used to bomb the Pentagon. They would have taken carefully staged pictures of a compressor disc off of an RB-211 so that darkbluesky could gleefully post as proof his croc that a Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon.
Sorry darkblue. A Boeing 757 did not crash into the Pentagon. And all your huffing and puffing will not make it so. You waste incredible amounts of space here showing your same tired old pictures of bits of confetti and pieces of scrap aluminum painted up all red, white and blue to look like Americans' colors. But not one, single, solid piece of real airplane parts, traceable parts with ID numbers that can be traced back to the original maintenance logs.
Wait a minute! Where are the original maintenance logs? You know, come to think of it, all airplane manufacturers put a small piece of steel on the aft cockpit bulkhead of airplane they build. On this piece of steel is stamped the Model of airplane, the serial number and the manufacturer. I have never known of an aircraft accident where this little piece of metal wasn't found. I have never heard of an airlane accident where at least pieces of the aft cockpit bulkhead wasn't found. Or the wing main spar!
Or the fuselage keel!
Or the aft pressure bulkhead! Wait a minute!
Nope. No Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon. But thanks for your input.
Originally posted by johnlear
They may have been stupid, but not stupid enough to take pictures of the turbine engine of the Globalhawk or whatever missile they used to bomb the Pentagon. They would have taken carefully staged pictures of a compressor disc off of an RB-211 so that darkbluesky could gleefully post as proof his croc that a Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon.
Originally posted by Realtruth
Can anyone comment on this? Two exit holes or entry holes in this picture.
Originally posted by darkbluesky
I mean after all...isn't "they" the same folks who have holgraphic airplanes, magic mini-nukes, and mining camps on the moon?
So which is it? Are they stupid and incompetent or brilliant and all powerful?
Originally posted by johnlear
They were stupid enough to vastly underestimate the collective intelligence of the American people.
Originally posted by Watchful1
OR were they smart enough to find who's loyal and who's a threat?
Originally posted by johnlear
Thats why there were so many military and government people on those flights.
Originally posted by johnlear
Originally posted by darkbluesky
I mean after all...isn't "they" the same folks who have holgraphic airplanes, magic mini-nukes, and mining camps on the moon?
Yes.
So which is it? Are they stupid and incompetent or brilliant and all powerful?
They were stupid enough to vastly underestimate the collective intelligence of the American people.
Originally posted by johnlear
Originally posted by Watchful1
OR were they smart enough to find who's loyal and who's a threat?
Thats very possible. Then they took everyone who was a direct threat and booked them on one of 4 flights on 911. Thats why there were so many military and government people on those flights.